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Lamellipedia

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Lamellipedia
Temporal range: Early Cambrian–Late Permian
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Lamellipedia

Hou and Bergstrom, 1997[1]
Subgroups

Lamellipedia is a proposed clade of arthropods, including trilobites and their relatives (Artiopoda) and Marrellomorpha. This relationship is not consistently recovered in phylogenetic analyses,[2] though it has seen some support.[3]

References

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  1. Hou, X.; Bergström, J. (1997), Arthropods of the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, southwest China (PDF), Fossils & Strata, Scandinavian University Press, pp. 1–116, ISSN 2637-6032
  2. Stein, Martin (November 2013). "Cephalic and appendage morphology of the Cambrian arthropod Sidneyia inexpectans". Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology. 253 (2): 164–178. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2013.05.001.
  3. Liu, Yao; Zeng, Han; Zhao, Fangchen; Zhu, Yuyan; Li, Yimeng; Yin, Zongjun; Zhu, Maoyan (31 May 2025). "A tiny Cambrian stem-mandibulate reveals independent evolution of limb tagmatization and specialization in early euarthropods". Scientific Reports. 15 (1). doi:10.1038/s41598-025-03544-0. PMC 12126567.