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- Title
A New Bivalved Arthropod from the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet Fauna, North Greenland.
- Authors
Taylor, Rod S.
- Abstract
A new bivalved arthropod is described from the Lower Cambrian (?Upper Atdabanian) Buen Formation of North Greenland. Pauloterminus spinodorsalis gen. et sp. nov. possesses a bivalved carapace that covers the head, which has a single pair of antennae, and anteriormost thorax. No mouthparts are visible. The five-segmented abdomen was limbless and terminated in a telson plus a pair of large, lobate uropods. A suite of at least six biramous thoracic limbs are present: the short endopods are made up of small, serial podomeres, while the exopods are lobate and may have functioned as gills as well as in swimming. Partially infilled guts are occasionally visible, suggesting that this animal may have been a sediment feeder. It is compared to other Cambrian bivalved arthropods, especially the waptiids Chuandianella ovata from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna (China) and Waptia fieldensis from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale (British Columbia). Of these three animals, the Greenland and Chinese taxa appear to be the most closely related. P. spinodorsalis possesses many typical arthropod features, but it also demonstrates more primitive characters that are more reminiscent of the lobopodians.
- Subjects
GREENLAND; ARTHROPODA; CAMBRIAN stratigraphic geology; FOSSILS
- Publication
Palaeontology, 2002, Vol 45, Issue 1, p97
- ISSN
0031-0239
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1475-4983.00229