Opabinid

Opabinids Temporal range: Burgess Shale PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
A reconstruction of Opabinia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Superphylum:	Ecdysozoa
(unranked):	Panarthropoda
Phylum:	Lobopodia
Class:	†Dinocaridida
Order:	Radiodonta
Family:	Opabinidae Walcott, 1912
Genus
Opabinia

Opabinids (Opabinidae) are organisms resembling the Burgess shale creature Opabinia, and by inference related to it. The status of the group and its constituent members are very much up in the air, as are the group's relationships with other organisms: some posit a close relationship with the Anomalocaridids.

With Leanchoilia another species had also been assigned originally to the family opabinidae by Walcott (1912), which no longer holds nowadays^[1]

References

1. ^ REASSESSMENT OF THE GENUS LEANCHOILIA (ARTHROPODA, ARACHNOMORPHA) FROM THE MIDDLE CAMBRIAN BURGESS SHALE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA by Diego C. García-Bellido and Desmond Collind†, 2005

External links

• Palaeos Ecdysozoa, look for: Probosciferidea [Opabiniida, Opabiniidacea]