Amplectobeluidae

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Amplectobeluidae
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Amplectobelua (left) and Lyrarapax (right)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class:† Dinocaridida
Order:† Radiodonta
Family:† Amplectobeluidae
Pates et al., 2019
Genera

Amplectobeluidae is a clade of Cambrian radiodonts. It currently includes five definitive genera, Amplectobelua , Lyrarapax , Ramskoeldia , Guanshancaris and a currently unnamed genus from the lower Cambrian aged Sirius Passet site in Greenland. [1] There is also a potential fifth genus, Houcaris , but that genus has become problematic in terms of its taxonomic placement. [2] [3]

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Definition

In 2014, Amplectobeluidae was defined as the most inclusive clade including Amplectobelua symbrachiata but not Anomalocaris canadensis , Tamisiocaris borealis , or Hurdia victoria . [4]

Description

Amplectobeluids could be recognized by frontal appendages with well-developed first distal endite, which forming a pincer-like structure that presumably better suited for a grasping function. [4] [5] Complete body fossils of amplectobeluids are only known by Amplectobelua and Lyrarapax , both showing combination of characters resembling Anomalocaris (i.e. streamlined body; small head with ovoid sclerites; well-developed swimming flaps; a pair of caudal furcae). [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] Another distinctive features only known in amplectobeluid genera were pairs of gnathobase-like structures (known by Amplectobelua and Ramskoeldia ), [9] [11] or an oral cone with combination of tetraradial arrangement and scale-like nodes (known by Lyrarapax and Guanshancaris). [8] [12] [13]

Classification

Early in 2014, "Anomalocaris" kunmingensis was tentatively assigned to Amplectobelua by Vinther et al. [4] Later that year, however, the discoverers of Lyrarapax unguispinus ignored that assessment and created a genus within Amplectobelua sensu Vinther et al. [7] An indeterminate frontal appendage assignable to this group is known from the Parker Slate of Vermont. [14]

Phylogeny

An a posteriori-weighted phylogenetic analysis in 2014 found the following relationships within the Amplectobeluidae: [7]

References

  1. ↑ Park, Tae-Yoon S.; Nielsen, Morten Lunde; Parry, Luke A.; Sørensen, Martin Vinther; Lee, Mirinae; Kihm, Ji-Hoon; Ahn, Inhye; Park, Changkun; de Vivo, Giacinto; Smith, M. Paul; Harper, David A. T.; Nielsen, Arne T.; Vinther, Jakob (2024-01-05). "A giant stem-group chaetognath". Science Advances. 10 (1). doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adi6678 . ISSN   2375-2548. PMC   10796117 .
  2. ↑ Zeng, Han; Zhao, Fangchen; Zhu, Maoyan (2022-09-07). "Innovatiocaris, a complete radiodont from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte and its implications for the phylogeny of Radiodonta". Journal of the Geological Society. 180. doi:10.1144/jgs2021-164. ISSN   0016-7649. S2CID   252147346.
  3. ↑ McCall, Christian (13 December 2023). "A large pelagic lobopodian from the Cambrian Pioche Shale of Nevada" . Journal of Paleontology. 97 (5): 1009–1024. doi:10.1017/jpa.2023.63.
  4. 1 2 3 Vinther J, Stein M, Longrich NR, Harper DA (March 2014). "A suspension-feeding anomalocarid from the Early Cambrian" (PDF). Nature. 507 (7493): 496–9. Bibcode:2014Natur.507..496V. doi:10.1038/nature13010. PMID   24670770. S2CID   205237459.
  5. ↑ Daley AC, Paterson JR, Edgecombe GD, García-Bellido DC, Jago JB (2013). "New anatomical information on Anomalocaris from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale and a reassessment of its inferred predatory habits". Palaeontology. 56 (5): 971–990. doi: 10.1111/pala.12029 .
  6. ↑ Chen JY, Ramsköld L, Zhou GQ (May 1994). "Evidence for monophyly and arthropod affinity of Cambrian giant predators". Science. 264 (5163): 1304–8. Bibcode:1994Sci...264.1304C. doi:10.1126/science.264.5163.1304. PMID   17780848. S2CID   1913482.
  7. 1 2 3 Cong P, Ma X, Hou X, Edgecombe GD, Strausfeld NJ (September 2014). "Brain structure resolves the segmental affinity of anomalocaridid appendages". Nature. 513 (7519): 538–42. Bibcode:2014Natur.513..538C. doi:10.1038/nature13486. PMID   25043032. S2CID   4451239.
  8. 1 2 Liu J, Lerosey-Aubril R, Steiner M, Dunlop JA, Shu D, Paterson JR (2018-11-01). "Origin of raptorial feeding in juvenile euarthropods revealed by a Cambrian radiodontan". National Science Review. 5 (6): 863–869. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwy057 . ISSN   2095-5138.
  9. 1 2 Cong P, Daley AC, Edgecombe GD, Hou X (August 2017). "The functional head of the Cambrian radiodontan (stem-group Euarthropoda) Amplectobelua symbrachiata". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (1): 208. doi: 10.1186/s12862-017-1049-1 . PMC   5577670 . PMID   28854872.
  10. ↑ Moysiuk J, Caron JB (August 2019). "A new hurdiid radiodont from the Burgess Shale evinces the exploitation of Cambrian infaunal food sources". Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 286 (1908) 20191079. doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.1079. PMC   6710600 . PMID   31362637.
  11. ↑ Cong PY, Edgecombe GD, Daley AC, Guo J, Pates S, Hou XG (2018). "New radiodonts with gnathobase-like structures from the Cambrian Chengjiang biota and implications for the systematics of Radiodonta" (PDF). Papers in Palaeontology. 4 (4): 605–621. doi:10.1002/spp2.1219. ISSN   2056-2802. S2CID   90258934.
  12. ↑ Zeng H, Zhao F, Yin Z, Zhu M (2018). "A new radiodontan oral cone with a unique combination of anatomical features from the early Cambrian Guanshan Lagerstätte, eastern Yunnan, South China" . Journal of Paleontology. 92 (1): 40–48. Bibcode:2018JPal...92...40Z. doi:10.1017/jpa.2017.77. ISSN   0022-3360. S2CID   134157062.
  13. ↑ Jiao DG, Pates S, Lerosey-Aubril R, Ortega-Hernández J, Yang J, Lan T, Zhang XG (2021). "The endemic radiodonts of the Cambrian Stage 4 Guanshan biota of South China". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 66. doi: 10.4202/app.00870.2020 . ISSN   0567-7920.
  14. ↑ Pari, Giovanni; Briggs, Derek E.G.; Gaines, Robert R. (2022-02-16). "The soft-bodied biota of the Cambrian Series 2 Parker Quarry Lagerstätte of northwestern Vermont, USA". Journal of Paleontology. 96 (4): 770–790. Bibcode:2022JPal...96..770P. doi: 10.1017/jpa.2021.125 . ISSN   0022-3360. S2CID   246933116.
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