Xenusia
Taxonavigation
Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: †Lobopodia
Classis: †
Ordines:
†Archonychophora –
†Protonychophora –
†Scleronychophora –
†Siberiida
Genera:
†Diania
Name
Xenusia Dzik & Krumbiegel, 1989
References
Primary references
- Dzik, J. & Krumbiegel, G. 1989. The oldest ‘onychophoran’ Xenusion: A link connecting phyla? Lethaia 22(2): 169–181. DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.1989.tb01679.x
. Reference page.
Additional references
- Dzik, J. 2011. The xenusian-to-anomalocaridid transition within the lobopodians. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 50(1): 65–74. PDF. Reference page.
- Hou, X. & Bergström, J. 1995. Cambrian lobopodians—ancestors of extant onychophorans? Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 114(1): 3–19. DOI: 10.1006/zjls.1995.0014 . Reference page.
- Ma, X., Hou, X. & Bergström, J. 2009. Morphology of Luolishania longicruris (Lower Cambrian, Chengjiang Lagerstätte, SW China) and the phylogenetic relationships within lobopodians. Arthropod Structure & Development 38(4): 271–291. DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2009.03.001 . Reference page.
- Poinar, G.O. Jr. 2000. Fossil onychophorans from Dominican and Baltic amber: Tertiapatus dominicanus n.g., n.sp. (Tertiapatidae n.fam.) and Succinipatopsis balticus n.g., n.sp. (Succinipatopsidae n.fam.) with a proposed classification of the subphylum Onychophora. Invertebrate Biology 119(1): 104–109. DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7410.2000.tb00178.x .
