Captopodus
| Captopodus Temporal range: Latest Pragian - Emsian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Genus: | †Captopodus Kühl & Rust, 2012 |
| Species: | †C. poschmanni
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| †Captopodus poschmanni Kühl & Rust, 2012
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Captopodus is an extinct genus of stem-
Description
Captopodus is a vermiform (worm-like)
Ecology
Captopodus seems to have been a scavenger or ambush predator, based on thylacocephalans such as Dollocaris.
Etymology
Captopodus derives from the words "capto" ("grasp") and "podus" ("appendage"). The species name poschmanni derives from Markus Poschmann, who has done preparatory and scientific work on a number of Hunsrück Slate animals.[1]
Classification
When first described in 2012, C. poschmanni was regarded as a basal stem-arthropod, however more recent studies have placed it specifically as a stem-mandibulate. In 2022 when describing Acheronauta, C. poschmanni was placed in a clade formed alongside A. stimulapis and the thylacocephalans as basal mandibulates. The cladogram below shows the position of C. poschmanni in relation to other arthropods based on the findings of Pulsipher et al. (2022).[1][3]
Arthropoda
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