Artiopoda

Artiopoda
Temporal range: Early Cambrian - Late Permian
Misszhouia, a nektaspid
Cheloniellon, a cheloniellid
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
(unranked): Artiopoda
Hou and Bergstrom, 1997
Subgroupings

The Artiopoda is a grouping of extinct arthropods that includes trilobites and their close relatives. It was erected by Hou and Bergström in 1997[3] to encompass a wide diversity of arthropods that would traditionally have been assigned to the Trilobitomorpha. Trilobites, in part due to abundance of findings owing to their mineralized exoskeletons, are by far the best recorded, diverse, and long lived members of the clade. Other members, which lack mineralised exoskeletons, are known mostly from Cambrian deposits.[4]

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  2. ^ a b Zhu, Y.; Zeng, H.; Liu, Y.; Zhao, F. (2023). "New artiopodan euarthropods from the Chengjiang fauna (Cambrian, Stage 3) at Malong, Yunnan, China". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 68. doi:10.4202/app.01080.2023.
  3. ^ Hou, X. & Bergström, J. 1997. Arthropods of the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, southwest China. Fossils and Strata, No. 45. Scandinavian University Press, Oslo, 22 Dec 1997: 116 pp.[1]
  4. ^ Schmidt, Michel; Hou, Xianguang; Zhai, Dayou; Mai, Huijuan; Belojević, Jelena; Chen, Xiaohan; Melzer, Roland R.; Ortega-Hernández, Javier; Liu, Yu (2021-08-19). "Before trilobite legs: Pygmaclypeatus daziensis reconsidered and the ancestral appendicular organization of Cambrian artiopods". bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2021.08.18.456779. Retrieved 2022-07-29.