Quadratapora is a genus of lobopodian known only from its biomineralized dorsal plates, which somewhat resemble those of Microdictyon.[1] Its fossils date to the Tommotian, representing (perhaps along with Rhombocorniculum)[2] the earliest record of lobopodians.[1]

Quadratapora
Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 2
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
(unranked): Panarthropoda
Phylum: "Lobopodia"
Class: Xenusia
Order: Archonychophora
Family: Eoconchariidae
Genus: Quadratapora
Species
  • Q. zhenbaensis Hao and Shu, 1987 (type)
  • Q. tenuiporatum (Bengtson, Matthews and Missarzhevsky, 1986

References

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  1. ^ a b Zhang, X. -G.; Aldridge, R. J. (2007). "Development and Diversification of Trunk Plates of the Lower Cambrian Lobopodians". Palaeontology. 50 (2): 401–415. Bibcode:2007Palgy..50..401Z. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00634.x.
  2. ^ Caron, J. -B.; Smith, M. R.; Harvey, T. H. P. (2013). "Beyond the Burgess Shale: Cambrian microfossils track the rise and fall of hallucigeniid lobopodians". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 280 (1767): 20131613. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.1613. PMC 3735267. PMID 23902914.