Radiodonta

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Radiodonta
Temporal range:
Ma
Left to right, top to bottom:
Peytoia nathorsti, Lyrarapax unguispinus, Cambroraster falcatus, and Hurdia
victoria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
†Dinocaridida
Order:
†Radiodonta
Collins, 1996
Families

Radiodonta is an extinct

Schinderhannes bartelsi
.

Etymology

The name Radiodonta (Latin for radius "spoke of a wheel" and Greek for odoús "tooth") refers to the radial arrangement of tooth plates (oral cone) surrounding the mouth,[6] although these features are suggested to be absent in some radiodont species.[4][1]

Definition

The original diagnosis of order Radiodonta in 1996 is as follows:[6]

Radiodontids are bilaterally symmetrical, elongate arthropods with a nonmineralized cuticle typically most robust in the jaws and claws. The body is subdivided into two

metameric
, typically with about 13 segments laterally developing imbricating lobes for swimming and gills for respiration, and may end in a prominent three-part tail. Some forms have gnathobasic trunk limbs.

In 2014, the clade Radiodonta was defined

Anomalocaris canadensis than Paralithodes camtschaticus.[7] In 2019, it was redefined morphologically as animal bearing head carapace complex with central (H-) and lateral (P-) elements; outgrowths (endites) from frontal appendages bearing auxiliary spines; and reduced anterior flaps or bands of lamellae (setal blades) and strong tapering of body from anterior to posterior.[3]

Description

Size estimation and comparison of radiodont species known by nearly complete specimens

Most radiodonts were significantly larger than the other

Aegirocassis benmoulai, which may have grown up to two meters long.[10][2] A nearly complete specimen of a juvenile Lyrarapax unguispinus measured only 18 millimetres (0.71 in), making it among the smallest radiodont specimens known, though adults reached a length of 8 centimetres (3.1 in)[2][12] An isolated frontal appendage of a hurdiid with a length less than half that of the juvenile Lyrarapax is known, but it is not known whether this specimen pertains to an adult.[13] The largest known Cambrian radiodont was Amplectobelua, reaching lengths of up to 90 cm (35 in) based on an incomplete specimen.[14] Anomalocaris and Laminacaris are also large ones, reached 37.8 centimetres (14.9 in) and 78 centimetres (31 in) (there was an estimation that Houcaris saron (previously Anomalocaris saron) reached 56 centimetres (22 in), but specimen used for estimating the body length no longer belongs to that species[15]); the Cambrian hurdiid Titanokorys approached it in size, with an estimated body length of approximately 50 centimetres (20 in).[2][16]

The body of a radiodont could be divided into two regions: head and trunk. The head is composed of only one body segment[17] known as the ocular somite, covered by sclerites (head carapace complex), bore arthropodized frontal appendages, ventral mouthparts (oral cone), and stalked compound eyes. The tapering trunk is composed of multiple body segments, each associated with pairs of flaps and gill-like structures (setal blades).[3]

Frontal appendage

Frontal appendages morphology of the radiodont families Anomalocarididae/Amplectobeluidae and Hurdiidae

The anterior structures on the head are a pair of frontal appendages which have been referred to as 'claws', 'grasping appendages', 'feeding appendages', or 'great appendages' in previous studies (the last term is discouraged since the homology between frontal appendages and the original, morphologically distinct

great appendages' of other arthropods (all arose from post-ocular somite 1).[22] Since the morphology of the frontal appendages, especially those of the spines, always differs between species, it is one of the most important means of species identification.[19] In fact, many radiodonts are only known from a handful of fossilized frontal appendages.[21][19]

Oral cone

Oral cones of various radiodonts

The mouth is on the ventral side of the head, behind the attachment point of frontal appendages and is surrounded by a ring of tooth plates, forming the mouthpart known as oral cone ('jaws' in previous studies[6]). 3 or 4 tooth plates might be enlarged, giving the oral cone a triradial (e.g. Anomalocaris, Echidnacaris) or tetraradial (e.g. Hurdiidae, Lyrarapax) appearance.[23][12][24] The inner margin of tooth plates have spikes facing towards the mouth opening. Additional rows of internal tooth plates may occur in some hurdiid genera.[8][3] Detail reconstruction of some amplectobeluid oral cones are speculative, but they possibly did not present a typical radial arrangement.[4][1]

Head sclerites, eyes and trunk

Head sclerite complexes of various radiodonts

Three head sclerite (carapace) complex formed by a central H-element (anterior sclerite or head shield) and a pair of P-elements (lateral sclerites) cover the dorsal and laterovental surface of the animal's head.[3] The P-elements may connect to each other as well as the H-element by a narrow anterior extension (P-element neck or 'beak').[8][3] The head sclerites are small and ovoid in Anomalocarididae and Amplectobeluidae,[4][3] but often enlarged in Hurdiidae, corresponded to their distinct body shapes (streamlined in Anomalocarididae/Amplectobeluidae but often compact in Hurdiidae).[3] The head bore two stalked compound eyes, which may have had mobility,[25] and are located between the gaps formed by the posterior regions of the H-element and P-elements.[8][3] The compound eyes of Echidnacaris are exceptionally unstalked.[13] Some species possess an additional median eye behind the H-element.[22]

Anterior region of two generized Anomalocaris and Hurdiid radiodont, showing distinct morphology A: Dorsal view, B: Ventral view, Fa: Frontal appendage, He: H-element, Pe: P-element, Ey: Eye, Oc: Oral cone, Af: Anterior (neck) flap, Bf/Vf:, Ventral flap, Sb: Setal blade

Contrary to the original diagnosis, the division of body segments (segmental boundaries) can be visible externally

somites), tapering from anterior to posterior, with the anterior three or four segments significantly constricted into a neck region.[3]

  • Variations of radiodont body flaps
    Variations of radiodont body flaps
  • The movement of radiodont flapping appendages
    The movement of radiodont flapping appendages
  • Ventral view of a generalized GLS-bearing radiodont, showing gnathobase‐like structures (GLSs) associated with reduced anterior flaps
    Ventral view of a generalized GLS-bearing radiodont, showing gnathobase‐like structures (GLSs) associated with reduced anterior flaps

The trunk appendages were fin-like body flaps ('lateral flaps' or 'lobes' in some studies), usually one pair of ventral flaps per body segment, each slightly overlapping the one more anterior to it, but additional, non-overlapping sets of small dorsal flaps may occur in some Hurdiid species.[10] The flaps may have numerous vein-like structures (referred to as 'strengthening rays',[5] 'flap rays',[3] 'tranverse rods',[10] 'transverse lines'[28] or 'veins'[29]). The flaps on the neck region (referred to as 'reduced flaps',[4] 'neck flaps',[5] 'head flaps',[27] 'anterior flaps'[30] or 'differentiated flaps'[18]) are significantly reduced. In some species, jaw-like feeding appendages called gnathobase-like structures (GLSs) arose from each of the bases of their reduced neck flaps.[4][1] Numerous elongated blade-like extensions (referred to as lanceolate blades or lamellae[3]) arranged in a row, forming bands of gill-like structures known as setal blades, covered the dorsal surface of each body segment.[10] At least in Aegirocassis, each of the lanceolate blades are covered in wrinkles.[10] The ventral flaps may be homologous to the endopod of the biramous limbs of euarthropods and lobopodous limbs (lobopods) of gilled lobopodians, and the dorsal flaps and setal blades may be homologous to the exite and gill-bearing dorsal flaps of the former taxa.[31][10] The trunk may end either with a tail fan compose of 1 to 3 pairs of blades,[29][27][3] a pair of long furcae,[29][12][3] an elongated terminal structure,[27] or a featureless blunt tip.[10]

Internal structures

digestive system of a radiodont
Various interpretations of radiodont brain. A: after Cong et al. 2014,[9] B: after Moysiuk & Caron 2022[22]

Traces of

digestive system and nervous system were described from some radiodont fossils. Pairs of well-developed muscles were connected to the ventral flaps located at the lateral cavities of each body segment.[27][9] Between the lateral muscles is a sophisticated digestive system, formed by a widening of the foregut and hindgut, both connected by a narrow midgut associated with six pairs of gut divercula (digestive glands).[27][5][32]

The

euarthropods, but further interpretations differ between studies. Based on Cong et al. 2014, the brain composed of only one brain segment originating from the ocular somite, the protocerebrum. The nerves of the frontal appendages and compound eyes arose from the anterior and lateral regions of the brain.[9][17] Based on Moysiuk & Caron 2022, the frontal appendage nerves arose from the ventral deutocerebrum, the second brain segment. The previous "frontal appendage nerves" actually represent median eye nerve.[22] In both interpretations, posterior to the brain was a pair of apparently unfused ventral nerve cords which ran through the animal's neck region.[9][22]

Paleoecology

Physiology

Paleoecological reconstruction of a group of Cambroraster swimming over a brine seep

Radiodonts were interpreted as

trilobites.[37]

Diet

Cambroraster falcatus
Suggested frontal appendage mobility and movement of various radiodonts[21][11]

Radiodonts had diverse feeding strategies, which could be categorized as

mesozooplankton and phytoplankton down to 0.5mm.[7][10] Frontal appendages of Caryosyntrips, which are unusual for radiodonts in having the direction of endite-bearing surfaces opposing one another and may have been able to manipulate and crush prey in a scissor-like slicing or grasping motion.[21][41]

Oral cones of radiodonts may have been used for suction and/or biting.[23][38][3] Together with the great variety of frontal appendages in different species of radiodonts, differentiation of oral cones between species suggests preferences of different diets as well.[38][11] For example, the triradial oral cone of Anomalocaris with irregular, tuberculated toothplates and a small opening may have been adapted to small and nektonic prey,[23][11] while the rigid tetraradial oral cones of Peytoia, Titanokorys, Hurdia, and one isolated oral cone attributed to Cambroraster with a larger opening and sometimes additional tooth plates may have been capable to consume larger food items relative to their body size and probably benthic or endobenthic prey.[23][38][3]

Classification

Taxonomic affinities

Ecdysozoa
Cycloneuralia

Priapulida and relatives

Panarthropoda

Onychophora

Tardigrada

†

paraphyletic)

†

Siberiid lobopodians

†

Pambdelurion

†

Kerygmachela

†

Opabiniidae

†

Radiodonta

Euarthropoda

Summarized phylogeny between Radiodonta and other Ecdysozoan taxa[42]

Most

Euarthropoda (e.g. Artiopoda, Chelicerata and Mandibulata).[8][44][45][46][47][48][7][9][10][2][3][30][18][39][40][49][50][43] This interpretation is supported by numerous arthropod groundplan found on radiodonts and opabiniids, such as stalked compound eyes,[25] digestive glands,[32] trunk appendages forming by dorsal and ventral elements (precursor of arthropod biramous appendages).[10][50] Compared to opabiniids, which possess posterior mouth opening and fused frontalmost appendages (comparable to euarthropod posterior-facing labrum/hypostome complex),[17][43] radiodonts on the other hand featured euarthropod-like dorsal sclerite (H-element) and arthropodization (frontal appendages) on their head regions,[51][17][43] alongside cuticularized gut termini.[27] The fact that both radiodonts and opabiniids lack exoskeleton on their trunk region suggests that the origin of compound eyes and arthropodization (segmented appendages) precede arthrodization (full set of trunk exoskeleton) in the arthropod stem lineage.[42][52][53] The constricted neck region with feeding appendicular structures of some radiodont may also shed light on the origin of the sophisticated arthropod head, which was formed by the fusion of multiple anterior body segments.[4][17] Basal deuteropods that possess a mixture of radiodont/opabiniid characters like Kylinxia and Erratus, may represent intermediate forms between radiodonts, opabiniids and other euarthropods.[18][50]

Taxa just basal to the radiodont, opabiniid and euarthropod branch are '

Tardigrada and Onychophora.[57][42][17][58][52][53]

Previous studies may suggest radiodonts as a group other than stem-arthropods, such as a hitherto unknown

tergites and multiple head appendages,[42] and the megacheiran great appendages were considered to be deutocerebral,[62][63] which could be non-homologous to the radiodont protocerebral frontal appendages;[9][17] putative euarthropod characters found on the single Schinderhannes fossil is questionable and may present other radiodont-like structures.[42]

Interrelationships

Phylogeny of Radiodonta after Moysiuk & Caron 2021[39]

Traditionally, all radiodont species have been placed within one family,

Anomalocarida.[7]

The original description of the order Radiodonta included

Euarthropoda.[10][12]

The first in-depth phylogenetic analysis of Radiodonta was conducted by Vinther et al. in 2014,

polyphyletic, usually with "Anomalocaris" kunmingensis and "Anomalocaris" briggsi resolved as a member of Amplectobeluidae and Tamisiocarididae respectively.[7][9][10][2][3][39][40] Interrelationship of Amplectobeluidae is uncertain, as the amplectobeluid affinities of Lyrarapax and Ramskoeldia were occasionally questioned.[1][3][40] Monophyly of the speciose family Hurdiidae was recovered by most analysis and well-supported by several synapomorphies (e.g. distal articulated region of frontal appendage with proximal 5 podomeres bearing subequal endites[19][3]). Tamisiocarididae was often suggested to be sister group of Hurdiidae in 2010s,[7][10][2][3] but this position became questionable in subsequent studies.[22][24]
Described species of Radiodonta
Species Original description Year named Family Age Location Frontal appendage Head sclerite complex
Cucumericrus decoratus Hou, Bergström, & Ahlberg 1995[26] (unassigned) Cambrian Stage 3  China Unknown Unknown
Caryosyntrips serratus Daley & Budd 2010[21] (unassigned) Wuliuan–Drumian  Canada  United States Unknown
Caryosyntrips camurus Pates & Daley 2017[41] (unassigned) Wuliuan  Canada  United States Incomplete[74]
Caryosyntrips durus Pates & Daley 2017[41] (unassigned) Drumian  United States Unknown
Paranomalocaris multisegmentalis Wang, Huang, & Hu 2013[66] Anomalocarididae? Cambrian Stage 4  China Unknown
Paranomalocaris simplex Jiao, Pates, Lerosey-Aubril, Ortega-Hernandez, Yang, Lan, Zhang 2021[67] Anomalocarididae? Cambrian Stage 4  China Unknown
Laminacaris chimera Guo, Pates, Cong, Daley, Edgecombe, Chen, & Hou 2018[68] (controversial) Cambrian Stage 3  China Unknown
Innovatiocaris maotianshanensis Zeng, Zhao, Zhu 2022[69] (unassigned) Cambrian Stage 3  China P-element unknown[69]
Innovatiocaris? multispiniformis Zeng, Zhao, Zhu 2022[69] (unassigned) Cambrian Stage 3  China Unknown
Anomalocaris canadensis Whiteaves 1892[75] Anomalocarididae Wuliuan  United States
Lenisicaris pennsylvanica (formerly Anomalocaris pennsylvanica)[20] Resser 1929 Anomalocarididae Cambrian Stage 3  United States Unknown
Lenisicaris lupata Wu, Ma, Lin, Sun, Zhang, & Fu 2021[20] Anomalocarididae Cambrian Stage 3  China Unknown
Anomalocaris daleyae Paterson, García-Bellidob & Edgecombe 2023 Anomalocarididae Cambrian Stage 4  Australia Unknown
Houcaris magnabasis (formerly Anomalocaris magnabasis)[15] Pates, Daley, Edgecombe, Cong & Lieberman 2019 (controversial) Cambrian Stage 4  United States Unknown
Houcaris saron (formerly Anomalocaris saron)[15] Hou, Bergström, & Ahlberg 1995 (controversial) Cambrian Stage 3  China Unknown
Echidnacaris briggsi[24] Nedin 1995 Tamisiocarididae Cambrian Stage 4  Australia Possible H-element and unique lateral sclerites associated with compound eyes[13][24]
Ramskoeldia platyacantha Cong, Edgecombe, Daley, Guo, Pates, & Hou 2018[1] Amplectobeluidae Cambrian Stage 3  China Incomplete[1]
Ramskoeldia consimilis Cong, Edgecombe, Daley, Guo, Pates, & Hou 2018[1] Amplectobeluidae Cambrian Stage 3  China Incomplete[1]
Lyrarapax unguispinus Cong, Ma, Hou, Edgecombe, & Strausfield 2014[9] Amplectobeluidae Cambrian Stage 3  China P-element neck unknown
Lyrarapax trilobus Cong, Daley, Edgecombe, Hou, & Chen 2016[5] Amplectobeluidae Cambrian Stage 3  China P-element unknown
Amplectobelua symbrachiata Hou, Bergström, & Ahlberg 1995[26] Amplectobeluidae Cambrian Stage 3  China
Amplectobelua stephenensis Daley & Budd 2010[21] Amplectobeluidae Wuliuan  United States Unknown
Guanshancaris kunmingensis Zhang et al. 2023[70] Amplectobeluidae Cambrian Stage 4  China Unknown
Tamisiocaris borealis Daley & Peel 2010 Tamisiocarididae Cambrian Stage 3  Greenland Incomplete[7]
Ursulinacaris grallae Pates, Daley & Butterfield 2019 Hurdiidae Wuliuan  Canada Unknown
Schinderhannes bartelsi Kühl, Briggs, & Rust 2009[35] Hurdiidae Emsian  Germany Incomplete[3] Incomplete[3]
Stanleycaris hirpex Pates, Daley, & Ortega-Hernández 2018[72] Hurdiidae Wuliuan  Canada P-element is unknown, possibly absent[22]
Peytoia nathorsti
 		Walcott 1911[76] Hurdiidae Wuliuan–Drumian  Canada  United States Incomplete[3]
Peytoia infercambriensis (formerly Cassubia infercambriensis)[77] Lendzion 1975 Hurdiidae Cambrian Stage 3  Poland Unknown
Aegirocassis benmoulai Van Roy, Daley, & Briggs 2015[10] Hurdiidae (Aegirocassisinae) Tremadocian  Morocco
Hurdia victoria Walcott 1912[78] Hurdiidae Wuliuan–Drumian  Canada  Czechia
Hurdia triangulata Walcott 1912[78] Hurdiidae Wuliuan  Canada
Cambroraster falcatus Moysiuk & Caron 2019[3] Hurdiidae Wuliuan  Canada
Pahvantia hastata Robison & Richards 1981 Hurdiidae Drumian  United States
Cordaticaris striatus Sun, Zeng, & Zhao 2020[73] Hurdiidae Drumian  China Incomplete[73]
Zhenghecaris shankouensis Vanner, Chen, Huang, Charbonnier, & Wang 2006 Hurdiidae Cambrian Stage 3  China Unknown
Buccaspinea cooperi Pates, Lerosey-Aubril, Daley, Kier, Bonino & Ortega-Hernández 2021[74] Hurdiidae Drumian  United States Unknown
Titanokorys gainesi Caron & Moysiuk 2021[40] Hurdiidae Wuliuan  Canada
Pseudoangustidontus duplospineus Van Roy & Tetlie 2006 Hurdiidae (Aegirocassisinae) Tremadocian  Morocco Unknown
Pseudoangustidontus izdigua Potin, Gueriau & Daley 2023 Hurdiidae (Aegirocassisinae) Tremadocian  Morocco Incomplete[71]

History

Peytoia nathorsti
, the original "Laggania cambria"
  • Frontal appendage of Anomalocaris canadensis
    Frontal appendage of
    Anomalocaris canadensis
  • Oral cone of Peytoia nathorsti
    Oral cone of
    Peytoia nathorsti
  • H-element of Hurdia victoria
    H-element of Hurdia victoria
  • Paired frontal appendages from an unnamed hurdiid radiodont[39]
    Paired frontal appendages from an unnamed hurdiid radiodont[39]

The history of radiodonts is complex. Incomplete specimens pertaining to different body parts of the same species had historically been interpreted as belonging to different species and even different phyla.

Arthropoda.[6]

The first known radiodont specimens were collected from the

Peytoia nathorsti, as a jellyfish, and a poorly-preserved but relatively complete specimen, which he named Laggania cambria, as a holothurian.[76] In 1912 Walcott named Hurdia victoria and H. triangulata based on isolated H-elements, which he interpreted as the carapaces of crustaceans.[78] Isolated frontal appendages of Peytoia and Hurdia, collectively known as "Appendage F" in Briggs 1979, were all identified as those of Sidneyia at that time.[76] A Hurdia P-element was named Proboscicaris in 1962, and interpreted as the carapace of a bivalved arthropod.[79]

The Geological Survey of Canada initiated a revision of Burgess Shale fossils in 1966, overseen by

Cambridge University paleontologist Harry B. Whittington.[6] This revision would ultimately lead to the discovery of the complete radiodont body plan. In 1978, Simon Conway Morris recognized that the mouthparts of Laggania were Peytoia-like, but he interpreted this as evidence that it was a composite fossil made up of a Peytoia jellyfish and a sponge.[80] In 1979, Derek Briggs recognized that the fossils of Anomalocaris were appendages, not abdomens, but interpreted them as walking legs alongside "Appendage F".[81] It was not until 1985 that the true nature of the fossils of Anomalocaris, Laggania, and Peytoia was recognized, and they were all assigned to a single genus, Anomalocaris.[33] Subsequently, it was recognized that Anomalocaris was a distinct form from the other two, resulting in a split into two genera, the latter of which was variously named Laggania and Peytoia until it was determined that both represent the same species and Peytoia had priority.[23] It was later recognized that some of the fossils assigned to these taxa belonged to another form, which was recognized as bearing a carapace made up of Hurdia and Proboscicaris elements. Finally, in 2009, these specimens were redescribed as Hurdia.[8] Even after these recognitions, partial misidentifications (e.g. oral cone and frontal appendages of Peytoia had been assigned to Anomalocaris[6] and Hurdia,[8] respectively) had been revealed by subsequent studies as well.[23][82]

The taxon Radiodonta itself was coined in 1996 by Desmond Collins, after it was established that Anomalocaris and its kin represented a distinctive lineage with arthropod affinities rather than a hitherto unknown phylum.

Cetiocaridae, and Hurdiidae.[7] The name Cetiocaridae did not conform to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and so was renamed Tamisiocarididae in 2019.[83]

Until the 2010s, radiodonts were typically considered to be uniformly large apex predators, but discoveries of new species over the course of that decade led to a considerable increase in the known ecological and morphological diversity of the group.[7][10][2][3][84][74][39][40]

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