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ACarboniferousNon-Onychophoran
LobopodianRevealsLong-TermSurvival
ofaCambrianMorphotype
JoachimT.Haug,1,*GeorgMayer,2CarolinHaug,1StratigraphicHorizonandLocality.CarbondaleFormation,
andDerekE.G.Briggs3,4FrancisCreekShaleMember,MazonCreekarea,Pit11,Essex
1ZoologicalInstituteandMuseum,DepartmentofCytologyfauna[18,19],Illinois,USA.
andEvolutionaryBiology,UniversityofGreifswald,Diagnosis.Lobopodianwithprominentcylindricalhead
Soldmannstrasse23,17487Greifswald,Germanyregioncomprisingone-thirdofbodylength,ninepairsof
2AnimalEvolutionandDevelopment,InstituteofBiology,long,tube-shapedwalkinglimbs(lobopods),andanadditional
UniversityofLeipzig,Talstrasse33,04103Leipzig,Germanypairofsmallappendagesassociatedwithheadregion;body
3DepartmentofGeologyGeophysics,YaleUniversity,surfacesmooth.
POBox208109,NewHaven,CT06511,USAMeasurements.Bodynearlyseventimeslongerthanwide
4YalePeabodyMuseumofNaturalHistory,YaleUniversity,(totalpreservedlength35mm,diameter4.8mm);limbsatleast
NewHaven,CT06520,USA11mmlong(theappendagelengthmayvaryindifferentbody
areas,sowebasedthismeasurementonthelongestpre-