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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...
- far the only
other known unquestionable opabiniid, with the
other being Opabinia itself.
There are
other animals like
Myoscolex and
Mieridduryn that could...
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extinct family of
marine stem-arthropods. Its type and best-known
genus is
Opabinia. It also
contains Utaurora, and Mieridduryn.
Opabiniids closely resemble...
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group composed of
Radiodonta (Anomalocaris and relatives),
Opabiniidae (
Opabinia and relatives), and the "gilled lobopodians"
Pambdelurion and Kerygmachelidae...
- the
Burgess Shale fauna.
Several of the finds,
including the
enigmatic Opabinia and
Anomalocaris have some,
though not all,
features ****ociated with arthropods...
- pteryx.
Others pointed to a
general resemblance between Tullimonstrum and
Opabinia regalis,
although Cave et al. note that they were too
morphologically dissimilar...
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early marine predator, a
member of the stem-arthropod
group Radiodonta Opabinia was a
bizarre stem-arthropod that
possessed five
stalked eyes, and a fused...
- "Xenusians" or "Xenusiids" (class Xenusia).
Certain Dinocaridid genera, such as
Opabinia, Pambdelurion, and Kerygmachela, may also be
regarded as lobopodians, sometimes...
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Opabinia sparked modern interest in the
Cambrian explosion...
