Cucumericrus

Cucumericrus Temporal range: Chengjiang PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Stem-group:	Arthropoda
Class:	†Dinocaridida
Order:	†Radiodonta
Family:	†Anomalocarididae
Genus:	†Cucumericrus Hou, Bergstrom & Ahlberg, 1995
Species:	†C. decoratus
Binomial name
Cucumericrus decoratus Hou, Bergstrom & Ahlberg, 1995

Cucumericrus is a genus of anomalocaridid known from a few poorly-preserved specimens. Its great appendages are never preserved,^[1] but it does seem to bear walking legs, which have been interpreted as somewhere between lobopod legs and segmented arthropod legs.^[2]

Reflist

1. ^ Allison C. Daley & Graham E. Budd (2010). "New anomalocaridid appendages from the Burgess Shale, Canada". Palaeontology 53 (4): 721–738. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00955.x. http://bristol.academia.edu/AllisonDaley/Papers/336352/New_Anomalocaridid_Appendages_From_the_Burgess_Shale_Canada. 
2. ^ Jan Bergström & Hou Xian-Guang (2003). "Arthropod origins" (PDF). Bulletin of Geosciences 78 (4): 323–334. http://www-1.sysnet.cz/projects/env.ris/ekodisk-new.nsf/3c715bb7027b1c65c1256bb3007b7af2/9a21746463a798e9c125708f002d7766/$FILE/str.%20323-334.pdf.