Imperial College London
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DrMarkSutton

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering

Reader in Palaeontology
 
 
 
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@article{Siveter:2018:10.1098/rsos.172101,
author = {Siveter, D and Briggs, D and Siveter, D and Sutton, MD and Legg, D},
doi = {10.1098/rsos.172101},
journal = {Royal Society Open Science},
title = {A three-dimensionally preserved lobopodian from the Herefordshire (Silurian) Lagerstätte, UK},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.172101},
volume = {5},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The Herefordshire (Silurian) Lagerstätte (approx. 430 Myr BP) has yielded, among many exceptionally preserved invertebrates, a wide range of new genera belonging to crown-group Panarthropoda. Here, we increase this panarthropod diversity with the lobopodian Thanahita distos, a new total-group panarthropod genus and species. This new lobopodian preserves at least nine paired, long, slender appendages, the anterior two in the head region and the posterior seven representing trunk lobopods. The body ends in a short post-appendicular extension. Some of the trunk lobopods bear two claws, others a single claw. The body is covered by paired, tuft-like papillae. Thanahita distos joins only seven other known three-dimensionally preserved lobopodian or onychophoran (velvet worm) fossil specimens and is the first lobopodian to be formally described from the Silurian. Phylogenetic analysis recovered it, together with all described Hallucigenia species, in a sister-clade to crown-group panarthropods. Its placement in a redefined Hallucigeniidae, an iconic Cambrian clade, indicates the survival of this clade to Silurian times.
AU  - Siveter,D
AU  - Briggs,D
AU  - Siveter,D
AU  - Sutton,MD
AU  - Legg,D
DO  - 10.1098/rsos.172101
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 2054-5703
TI  - A three-dimensionally preserved lobopodian from the Herefordshire (Silurian) Lagerstätte, UK
T2  - Royal Society Open Science
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.172101
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/62174
VL  - 5
ER  -
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