Kodymirus Temporal range: Cambrian Series 2
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
(unranked): | †Artiopoda |
(unranked): | †Vicissicaudata |
Genus: | †Kodymirus Chlupáč & Havlíček, 1965 |
Species: | †K. vagans
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Binomial name | |
†Kodymirus vagans Chlupáč & Havlíček, 1965
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Kodymirus is a genus of Early Cambrian arthropod, known from the Czech Republic, which bears some resemblance to eurypterids and aglaspidids. Although it possessed great appendage-like raptorial arms, it was not homologous with those of megacheirans, and was instead a member of Vicissicaudata, closely related to aglaspidids. It is part of a small and low-diversity Paseky Shale fauna group, which dwelt in brackish waters.[1]