Protonychophora

Aysheaia pedunculata

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Orthokaryota
Cladus: Neokaryota
Cladus: Scotokaryota
Cladus: Podiata
Cladus: Amorphea
Cladus: Obazoa
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Cladus: Filozoa
Cladus: Choanozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Superphylum: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: †Lobopodia
Classis: †Xenusia
Ordo: †Protonychophora
Familiae: †Aysheaiidae – ?†Xenusiidae

Name

Protonychophora Hutchinson, 1930: 23

References

Primary references

• Hutchinson, G.E. 1930. Restudy of some Burgess Shale fossils. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 78(2854): 1–24. BHL.

Additional references

• Hou, X. & Bergström, J. 1995. Cambrian lobopodians—ancestors of extant onychophorans? Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 114(1): 3–19. DOI: 10.1006/zjls.1995.0014 . Reference page.