Artiopoda

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Artiopoda
Temporal range: Early Cambrian - Late Permian
nektaspid
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[2] to encompass a wide diversity of arthropods that would traditionally have been assigned to the Trilobitomorpha. Trilobites, in part due to their mineralising exoskeletons, are by far the most diverse and long lived members of the clade, with most records of other members, which lack mineralised exoskeletons, being from Cambrian deposits.[3]

Description

Morphology of Cambrian artiopod Retifacies, showing the morphology of the limbs (E, F) Key for limb morphology: exopod (exo) exite (exi) protopodite (pt) podomere (pd) spine/setae (s) terminal claw (tc)

According to Stein and Selden (2012) artiopods are recognised by the possession of

exites, which were described as similar those of the megacheiran Leanchoilia and probably not homologous to those present in crustaceans.[5]

Taxonomy

Internal taxonomy

The Artiopoda have been considered by many studies to consist of two major clades; one reusing Trilobitomorpha to encompass trilobites, nektaspids, concilitergans and xandarellids, and the other called Vicissicaudata encompassing aglaspidids, xenopods and cheloniellids.[6] There are some taxa, such as Squamacula and the members of "Protosutura", which often are placed near the base of Artiopoda, outside the Vicissicaudata+Trilobitomorpha clade. These relationships are not always recovered.[7]

Relationships with other arthropods

The relationship of Artiopoda with the two major clades of modern arthropods, the Chelicerata and the Mandibulata, are unresolved, with some phylogenies recovering Artiopoda as more closely to chelicerates, forming the clade Arachnomorpha, while others recover Artiopoda as more closely related to mandibulates, forming the clade Antennulata.[8] Some studies place them as stem-group euarthropods, with mandibulates and chelicerates more closely related to each other than either is to Artiopoda.[7] Some studies have recovered a close relationship with Marrellomorpha, with the proposed clade including Artiopoda and Marrellomorpha dubbed Lamellipedia, though this relationship is not found in other analyses.[9][10] The enigmatic artiopodan-like arthropod Kiisortoqia, which bears large "frontal appendages" has been suggested to be closely related to Artiopoda in some analyses.[7]

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Phylogeny

After Jiao et al. 2021.[11]

Artiopoda 

Squamacula clypeata

Protosutura 

Zhiwenia coronata

Australimicola spriggi

Acanthomeridion serratum

Acanthomeridion anacanthus

Bailongia longicaudata

Trilobitomorpha
 

Retifacies abnormalis

Kwanyinaspis maotiashanensis

Trilobita

Olenoides serratus

Eoredlichia intermedia

Conciliterga

Haifengella corona

Kuamaia lata

Helmetia expansa

Tegopelte gigas

Skioldia aldna

Saperion glumaceum

Xandarellida

Cindarella eucalla

Luohuilinella deletres

Luohuilinella rarus

Sinoburius lunaris

Xandarella spectaculum

Phytophilaspis pergamena

Nektaspida

Buenaspis forteyi

Tariccoia arrusensis

Soomaspis splendida

Liwia convexa

Naraoia spinosa

Naraoia compacta

Misszhouia longicaudata

Vicissicaudata
 

Sidneyia inexpectans

Emeraldella brocki

Cheloniellida

Cheloniellon calmani

Triopus draboviensis

Duslia insignis

Kodymirus vagans

Eozetetes gemmelli

Aglaspidida

Beckwithia typa

Chlupacaris dubia

Quasimodaspis brentsae

Tremaglaspis unite

Tremaglaspis vanroyi

Brachyaglaspis singularis

Cyclopites vulgaris

Australaglaspis stonyensis

Uarthrus instabilis

Flobertia kochi

Aglaspella granulifera

Gogglops ensifer

Glypharthrus simplex

Aglaspis spinifer

Chraspedops modesta

Glypharthrus thomasi

Glypharthrus trispinicaudatus

Glypharthrus magnoculus

References

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  2. ^ 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]
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