Biology:Xenusiid
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Short description: Extinct class of worms
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| Hallucigenia hongmeia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| (unranked): | Panarthropoda |
| Phylum: | †"Lobopodia" |
| Class: | †Xenusia |
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| †Xenusion auerswaldae Pompeckj, 1927
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Class Xenusia, the Xenusiids, represents the subset of lobopodian worms that fall in the stem-lineage of Onychophora.[1] Their type genus is Xenusion.[2] They have relatively large, annulated, cylindrical bodies. Their lobopod legs have tubercles at their bases. Some have large frontal appendages,[2] although these may represent taphonomic artefacts.[3] Their mouth is terminal or subterminal, and they are marine.[4] They probably represent a grade (paraphyletic group) rather than a clade (monophyletic group).
Systematics
Xenusia includes the following orders and families:[4]
Order Archonychophora
- Archonychophora Hou & Bergstrom, 1995[1] – undifferentiated appendages; each segment the same as each other.[5]
- Luolishaniidae Hou & Bergstrom, 1995 – three small rounded sclerites per segment – these are thorn-shaped spines.[5]
- Luolishania Hou & Chen 1989
- Miraluolishania Liu & Shu 2004
- Paucipodiidae Hou et al., 2004[6] – with no dorsal sclerites, two claws, fine annulation and few segments.
- Paucipodia Hou et al. 2004
- Luolishaniidae Hou & Bergstrom, 1995 – three small rounded sclerites per segment – these are thorn-shaped spines.[5]
These taxa are only known from the Chengjiang (Cambrian Stage 2 Series 3).
Order Protonychophora
- Protonychophora Hutchinson, 1930 – spiny legs, reduced tail. The basal order of the panarthropods.
- Aysheaiidae Walcott, 1911 – many claws on each leg. Anterior grasping appendages with long spines.
- Aysheaia Walcott 1911
- Xenusiidae Dzik & Krumbiegel, 1989 – >20 leg-bearing segments; paired, rounded sclerites on each segment; spiny legs.
- Xenusion Pompeckj, 1927
- Jianshanopodia Liu et al.[2] – from Chengjiang; two rows of tubercles but no obvious sclerites.
- Hadranax Budd & Peel 1998 – from the Sirius Passet. Lacks obvious dorsal armature, but bears four 'nodes' per row.
- Aysheaiidae Walcott, 1911 – many claws on each leg. Anterior grasping appendages with long spines.
Order Scleronychophora
- Scleronychophora Hou & Bergstrom, 1995 – paired sclerites; elongated head sclerites.
- Eoconchariidae Hou & Shu, 1987 – ~10 leg-bearing segments, small head, sieve-like sclerites, varying in shape along body; curved claws on annulated legs; terminal mouth and anus.
- Microdictyon Bengtson et al.
- Quadratapora Hao and Shu, 1987
- Fusuconcharium Hao and Shu, 1987
- Hallucigeniidae Conway Morris, 1977 – ~10 leg-bearing segments; large sclerites covering head; sclerites on each segment are long spines.
- Hallucigenia Conway Morris 1977 – from the Chengjiang, Kaili and Burgess Shale.[7]
- Cardiodictyidae Hou & Bergstrom, 1995 – many segments (~23); large sclerites cover head; hexagonal sclerite on each body segment.
- Cardiodictyon Hou et al. 1991 – known from the Chengjiang.[7]
- Eoconchariidae Hou & Shu, 1987 – ~10 leg-bearing segments, small head, sieve-like sclerites, varying in shape along body; curved claws on annulated legs; terminal mouth and anus.
Order Paronychophora
- Paronychophora Hou & Bergstrom, 1995 – short, downwards facing head; papillae on body and legs, some arranged in rows; shield-like sclerites on head; dorsal armature of spines;[8] claw-like jaws; annulated legs [Note: diagnosis modified in [5]].
- Onychodictyidae Hou & Bergstrom, 1995
- Onychodictyon Hou et al. 1991
- Onychodictyidae Hou & Bergstrom, 1995
Order unassigned
- Orstenotubulus Maas et al. 2007 – from the Furongian Orsten deposits – with retractable dorsal spines.[9]
- Carbotubulus Haug et al. 2012[10] – from the Mazon creek. Dorwal armature uncertain. Few segments, long limbs.
- Mureropodia[11] from the Stage 2 Murero lagerstatten, Spain.
'Phylum' Onychophora
Onychophora are distinguished by their terrestrial habit, their ventral mouth; their antennae, jaws and oral papillae; they seem to be most closely related to the Paronychophora. Their first fossils are Carboniferous (Helenodora), although they may have had a cryptic earlier history.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hou, X.; Bergström, J. A. N. (1995). "Cambrian lobopodians-ancestors of extant onychophorans?". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 114: 3–19. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1995.tb00110.x.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Jianni Liu Degan Shu, Jian Han, Zhifei Zhang & Xingliang Zhang (2006). "A large xenusiid lobopod with complex appendages from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 51 (2): 215–222. http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app51/app51-215.pdf.
- ↑ Julián Monge-Nájera & Xianguang Hou; Hou (2002). "Experimental taphonomy of velvet worms (Onychophora) and implications for the Cambrian "explosion, disparity and decimation" model". Revista de Biología Tropical 50 (3–4): 1133–1138. PMID 12947596. http://www.ots.ac.cr/tropiweb/attachments/volumes/vol50-3-4/26-MONGE.pdf.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 George Poinar, Jr. (2000). "Fossil onychophorans from Dominican and Baltic amber: Tertiapatus dominicanus n.g., n.sp. (Tertiapatidae n.fam.) and Succinipatopsis balticus n.g., n.sp. (Succinipatopsidae n.fam.) with a proposed classification of the subphylum Onychophora". Invertebrate Biology 119 (1): 104–109. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2000.tb00178.x.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Ma, X.; Hou, X.; Bergström, J. (2009). "Morphology of Luolishania longicruris (Lower Cambrian, Chengjiang Lagerstätte, SW China) and the phylogenetic relationships within lobopodians". Arthropod Structure & Development 38 (4): 271–291. doi:10.1016/j.asd.2009.03.001.
- ↑ Xian-Guang Hou, Xiao-Ya Ma, Jie Zhao & Jan Bergström; Ma; Zhao; Bergström (2004). "The lobopodian Paucipodia inermis from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, Yunnan, China". Lethaia 37 (3): 235–244. doi:10.1080/00241160410006555.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Whittle, R. J.; Gabbott, S. E.; Aldridge, R. J.; Theron, J. (May 2009). "An Ordovician Lobopodian from the Soom Shale Lagerstätte, South Africa". Palaeontology 52 (3): 561–567. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00860.x.
- ↑ Liu, J.; Shu, D.; Han, J.; Zhang, Z.; Zhang, X. (2008). "The Lobopod Onychodictyon from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte Revisited". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53 (2): 285–292. doi:10.4202/app.2008.0209.
- ↑ Maas, A.; Mayer, G.; Kristensen, R. M.; Waloszek, D. (2007). "A Cambrian micro-lobopodian and the evolution of arthropod locomotion and reproduction". Chinese Science Bulletin 52 (24): 3385–3392. doi:10.1007/s11434-007-0515-3.
- ↑ Haug, J. T.; Mayer, G.; Haug, C.; Briggs, D. E. G. (2012). "A Carboniferous Non-Onychophoran Lobopodian Reveals Long-Term Survival of a Cambrian Morphotype". Current Biology 22 (18): 1673–1675. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.06.066. PMID 22885062.
- ↑ Gámez Vintaned, J. A.; Liñán, E.; Zhuravlev, A. (29 June 2011). "A New Early Cambrian Lobopod-Bearing Animal (Murero, Spain) and the Problem of the Ecdysozoan Early Diversification". Evolutionary Biology – Concepts, Biodiversity, Macroevolution and Genome Evolution. pp. 193–219. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-20763-1_12. ISBN 978-3-642-20762-4.
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