- Parapeytoia
Taxobox
name = "Parapeytoia"
status = fossil
fossil_range =Cambrian
domain =Eukaryota
regnum =Animalia
subregnum =Eumetazoa
superdivisio =Bilateria
superphylum =Panarthropoda ??
phylum =Lobopodia ??
classis =Dinocarida ??
ordo =Radiodonta ??
familia =Anomalocarididae ??
genus = "Parapeytoia"
genus_authority = Hou, Bergstrom & Ahlberg, 1995
binomial = "Parapeytoia yunnanensis"
binomial_authority = Hou, Bergstrom & Ahlberg, 1995" Parapeytoia " was a prehistoric animal that lived over 530 million years ago that lived in
Maotianshan shales of prehistoricChina . Like theanomalocarid s that it resembled (or was possibly related to), Parapeytoia had two head appendages in front of the also anomalocarid like round mouth, eyes on stalks, and fleshy lobed ending with a fan tail. Parapeytoia had at least 14 pairs of lobes on the sides of the body.
Many scientists debate whether or not Parapeytoia was a trueanomalocarid , or rather more closely related toYohoia orHaikoucaris , because unlike anomalocarids such asAmplectobelua , it had legs. In total Parapeytoia had 13 pairs of legs. The first two pairs of legs it had were almost twice as small as the other legs. But because it had legs, it probably spent most of its time on the ocean floor, hunting (or possibly scavenging) for prey.
The food for Parapeytoia probably included arthropods (including trilobites), worms, early molluscs and other creatures found in the diversity of prehistoric China.ee also
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Anomalocaris External links
* [http://www.trilobites.info/species2.html An Anomalocarid With Legs?]
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