Amplectobelua Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3,
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Reconstruction of Amplectobelua symbrachiata | |
Fossil specimen, showing frontal appendages, head carapace, gnathobase-like structures and body flaps | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Order: | †Radiodonta |
Clade: | †Amplectobeluidae |
Genus: | †Amplectobelua Hou, Bergström & Ahlberg, 1995 |
Type species | |
†Amplectobelua symbrachiata Hou, Bergström & Ahlberg, 1995
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Other species | |
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Amplectobelua (meaning "embracing beast") is an extinct genus of late Early Cambrian amplectobeluid radiodont, a group of stem arthropods that mostly lived as free-swimming predators during the first half of the Paleozoic Era.