-
Opabinia regalis is an extinct, stem
group arthropod found in the
Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale Lagerstätte (505
million years ago) of
British Columbia...
- arthropod. For example,
Graham Budd's
analyses of
Kerygmachela in 1993 and of
Opabinia in 1996
convinced him that
these animals were
similar to onychophorans...
-
extinct family of
marine stem-arthropods. Its type and best-known
genus is
Opabinia. It also
contains Utaurora, and Mieridduryn.
Opabiniids closely resemble...
- far the only
other known unquestionable opabiniid, with the
other being Opabinia itself.
There are
other animals like
Myoscolex and
Mieridduryn that could...
- the
Burgess Shale fauna.
Several of the finds,
including the
enigmatic Opabinia and
Anomalocaris have some,
though not all,
features ****ociated with arthropods...
-
group compose of
Radiodonta (Anomalocaris and relatives),
Opabiniidae (
Opabinia and relatives), and the "gilled lobopodians"
Pambdelurion and Kerygmachelidae...
- he
wanted to call his book
Homage to
Opabinia.
Gould wrote: I
believe that Whittington's
reconstruction of
Opabinia in 1975 will
stand as one of the great...
-
Opabinia sparked modern interest in the
Cambrian explosion...
- pteryx.
Others pointed to a
general resemblance between Tullimonstrum and
Opabinia regalis,
although Cave et al. note that they were too
morphologically dissimilar...
- the most publicity, for example: Whittington's
first presentation about Opabinia made the
audience laugh. The
reconstruction showed a soft-bodied animal...
