Opabiniidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Opabiniida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Classis: †Dinocaridida Ordo: †Opabiniida

Familia: †Opabiniidae
Genus: †Mieridduryn – †Opabinia – †Utaurora

Opabiniidae Walcott, 1912: 166

Type genus: Opabinia Walcott, 1912.

Walcott, C.D. 1912. Middle Cambrian Branchiopoda, Malacostraca, Trilobita and Merostomata. In: Cambrian geology and paleontology. II. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 57(6): 145–228, pls. 24–34, text figs. 8–10. BHL. Reference page.

Pates, S., Wolfe, J.M., Lerosey-Aubril, R., Daley, A.C. & Ortega-Hernández, J. 2022. New opabiniid diversifies the weirdest wonders of the euarthropod stem group. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289 (1968), 20212093. DOI: 10.1098/RSPB.2021.2093 Reference page.
Pates, S., Botting, J.P., Muir, L.A. & Wolfe, J.M. 2022. Ordovician opabiniid-like animals and the role of the proboscis in euarthropod head evolution. Nature Communications 13 (1), 6969. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34204-w Reference page.