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Geosciences 卷:10
Bradoriids (Arthropoda) and the Cambrian Diversification
MarkA. S. McMenamin1 
[1] Department of Geology and Geography, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075, USA;
关键词: Arthropoda;    Bradoriida;    Cambrian;    Chengjiang;    Sonora;    México;   
DOI  :  10.3390/geosciences10040119
来源: DOAJ
【 摘 要 】

Bradoriids, among the earliest arthropods to appear in the fossil record, are extinct, ostracod-like bivalved forms that ranged from the early Cambrian to the Middle Ordovician. Bradoriids are notable for having appeared in the Cambrian fossil record before the earliest trilobites, and considering their rapid ascent to high genus-level diversity, provide key data for our understanding of the evolutionary dynamics of the Cambrian Explosion. This paper presents a broad review of bradoriid paleobiology. It is hypothesized here that an allele of Antennapedia determines whether bradoriid shields are preplete, amplete, or postplete. The preplete configuration of the shields of Cambroarchilocus tigris gen. nov. sp. nov. suggests that shield rowing motion may have propelled the animal backwards. Arcuate scars attributed here to a microdurophagous predator (Arcuoichnus pierci nov. ichnogen. nov. ichnosp.) occur on the paratype of Cambroarchilocus tigris gen. nov. sp. nov.

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