Dinocaridida

Dinocaridida[derivation 1] is a proposed taxon[1] of extinct fossil arthropod-like marine animals found, with one exception, in the Cambrian and Ordovician.[2] The name of Dinocaridids comes from Greek, "deinos" and "caris", meaning "terror shrimp" or "terror crab", due to their crustacean-like appearance and the hypotheses suggesting that members of this class were amongst the dominating and most diverse apex predators of their time.[3] Dinocaridids occasionally referred as 'AOPK group' by some literatures, as the group compose of Radiodonta (Anomalocaris and relatives), Opabinia, Pambdelurion and Kerygmachela.[4] It is probably paraphyletic, with Kerygmachela and Pambdelurion more basal than the Opabinia and Radiodonta clade.

Dinocaridida Temporal range: Cambrian–Middle Devonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Assembles of Radiodonta
Opabinia, Pambdelurion and Kerygmachela
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	†Dinocaridida Collins, 1996
Subgroups
Kerygmachela Pambdelurion ?Omnidens Opabiniidae Opabinia ?Myoscolex Radiodonta ?Cucumericrus Caryosyntrips Paranomalocaris Laminacaris Anomalocarididae Anomalocaris Amplectobeluidae Amplectobelua Lyrarapax Ramskoeldia Tamisiocarididae Tamisiocaris Hurdiidae Hurdia Aegirocassis Peytoia Schinderhannes Stanleycaris Ursulinacaris Cambroraster ?Zhenghecaris Cordaticaris

Anatomy

Eyes (deep blue), brain (light blue) and digestive system (yellow) of Radiodonta (left) and Kerygmachela (right)

Dinocaridids were bilaterally symmetrical, with a mostly non-mineralized cuticle and a body divided into two major groupings of tagmata (body-sections): head and trunk. The head comprised only one segment (ocular somite)[5][6] and had two specialized frontal appendages just in front of the mouth and eyes. The frontal appendages are either lobopodous (in gilled lobopodians) or arthropodized (in Radiodonta) and usually paired, but highly fused into a nozzle-like structure in Opabinia.[7] Based on their preocular position and protocerebral origin, the frontal appendages are most likely homologous to the labrum of euarthropods and primary antennae of onychophora.[8][6] The trunk possessed multiple segments, each with its own gill branch and swimming flaps (lobes).[9] It is thought that these flaps moved in an up-and-down motion, in order to propel the animal forward[10] in a fashion similar to the cuttlefish. In gilled lobopodian genera, the trunk may have borne a lobopodous limb (lobopod) underneath each of the flaps.[9] The midgut of dinocaridids had paired digestive glands similar to those of siberiid lobopodians and cambrian euarthropods.[11] Based on the neuroanatomical evidence from Kerygmachela and Lyrarapax, the dinocaridid brain comprised only a protocerebrum, with frontal appendage nerves and optic nerves connected to its anterior and lateral region respectively.[8][12]

Classification

Ecdysozoa Cycloneuralia Priapulida, Nematoda etc.   Panarthropoda   Onychophora     Tardigrada   † Lobopodian grade (paraphyletic)     † Siberiid lobopodians     † Pambdelurion   † Kerygmachela     † Opabinia   † Radiodonta     Euarthropoda

Dinocaridida

Although some authors may rather suggest a different taxonomic affinities (e.g. as cycloneuralian relatives[13][7]), most of the phylogenetic studies suggest that dinocaridids are stem group arthropods.[14][15][16][17][9][5][6][18][19][20] Under this scenario, Dinocaridida is a paraphyletic grade in correspond to the arthropod crown group (Euarthropoda or Deuteropoda) and also suggest a lobopodian origin of the arthropod lineage.[21][5] In general, the gilled lobopodian genera Pambdelurion and Kerygmachela which have lobopodian traits (e.g. lobopodous appendage, annulation) occupied the basal position; while Opabinia and Radiodonta are more derived and closely related to the arthropod crown group, with the latter even have significant arthropod affinities such as arthropodization and head sclerites.[20][22][5]

Only one order, Radiodonta, had been founded for Dinocaridida. Traditionally, Radiodonta included all dinocaridid taxa and all radiodonts were grouped under a single family: Anomalocarididae (hence the previous common name 'Anomalocaridids'[14]). In later studies, Opabinia, Pambdelurion and Kerygmachela were excluded from Radiodonta, and many radiodonts were reassigned to other new families (Amplectobeluidae, Tamisiocarididae and Hurdiidae).[17]

Distribution

The group was geographically widespread, and has been reported from Cambrian strata in Canada, China and Russia,[23] as well as the Ordovician of Morocco and Devonian of Germany.[24]

Notes

1. Greek, "Terrible crabs" – sometimes informally spelt Dinocarida, but the second 'id' is linguistically correct – see Hou, Xianguang; Bergström, Jan; Jie, Yang (2006). "Distinguishing anomalocaridids from arthropods and priapulids". Geological Journal. 41 (3–4): 259–269. doi:10.1002/gj.1050.

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