Definition of Opabinia. Meaning of Opabinia. Synonyms of Opabinia

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- Opabinia regalis is an extinct, stem group marine 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...
- far the only other known unquestionable opabiniid, with the other being Opabinia itself. There are other animals like Myoscolex and Mieridduryn that could...
- extinct family of marine stem-arthropods. Its type and best-known genus is Opabinia. It also contains Utaurora, and Mieridduryn. Opabiniids closely resemble...
- group composed of Radiodonta (Anomalocaris and relatives), Opabiniidae (Opabinia and relatives), and the "gilled lobopodians" Pambdelurion and Kerygmachelidae...
- hypothesis derives tactopoda from a clade encomp****ing dinocaridids and Opabinia. The enigmatic panarthropodan Sialomorpha found in 30-million year old...
- "Xenusians" or "Xenusiids" (class Xenusia). Certain Dinocaridid genera, such as Opabinia, Pambdelurion, and Kerygmachela, may also be regarded as lobopodians, sometimes...
- mixture of characters resembling various Cambrian arthropod taxa, notably Opabinia (eyes), radiodonts (frontalmost appendages) and megacheirans (trunk). The...
- lobopodians with gill-bearing lateral flaps and also includes Kerygmachela and Opabinia. The gilled lobopodians are the closest relatives of the arthropods among...
- the Burgess Shale fauna. Several of the finds, including the enigmatic Opabinia and Anomalocaris have some, though not all, features ****ociated with arthropods...