Urokodia
Urokodia aequalis is an extinct genus of arthropod from the early Cambrian. The taxon is only known from the Maotianshan Shales of China based on some 15 specimens.[1] Its segmentation resembles that of a millipede and it possessed head and tail shields with thorny spikes. It has some similarities to the arthropod Mollisonia that is known from both the Burgess Shale of Canada and the Kaili biota of China. Recently, the taxon has been considered a member of the order Mollisoniida, alongside Mollisonia, Thelxiope, and Corcorania, the group are suggested to be stem-chelicerates.[2]
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| Order: | Mollisoniida |
| Genus: | Urokodia |
| Species: | U. aequalis |
References
- Hou, Xian-Guang; Aldridge, Richard J; Bergstrom, Jan; Siveter, David J. (1989). "The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China: The Flowering of Early Animal Life". Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - Lerosey-Aubril, Rudy; Skabelund, Jacob; Ortega-Hernández, Javier (2020-04-09). "Revision of the mollisoniid chelicerate(?) Thelxiope, with a new species from the middle Cambrian Wheeler Formation of Utah". PeerJ. 8: e8879. doi:10.7717/peerj.8879. ISSN 2167-8359.
- Urokodia aequalis Arthropod from Maotianshan Shales - URL retrieved September 11, 2010
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