Hurdiidae

Hurdiidae is an extinct cosmopolitan family of radiodonts, a group of stem-group arthropods, which lived during the Paleozoic Era. It is the most long-lived radiodont clade, lasting from the Cambrian period to the Devonian period.

Hurdiidae
Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 4–Lower Devonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: †Dinocaridida
Order: †Radiodonta
Suborder: †Anomalocarida
Family: †Hurdiidae
Vinther et al., 2014

Description
Anatomy of the frontal appendage of a hurdiid.
Frontal appendages of various species of hurdiid.
Dorsal carapaces of various species of hurdiid.

Hurdiidae is characterized by frontal appendages with distal region composed of 5 subequal blade-like endites, alongside the enlarged head carapaces and tetraradial mouthpart (oral cone).[1]

The frontal appendages of hurdiids have a distinctive morphology, with the appendage of most species bearing five equally-sized elongate blade-like ventral spines known as endites.[2] Subsequent podomeres were reduced in size and with only small endites or none. Each podomere bore only a single endite, unlike other radiodonts, in which the endites were paired.[2] In most species, the endites were curved medially, so that the appendages formed a basket-like structure.[1] Some hurdiids had greater numbers of endites, with Cordaticaris bearing seven endites of equal length.[3] Ursulinacaris is unique among hurdiids in bearing paired endites, which is likely a transitional form between the appendage of other radiodonts and that of hurdiids.[2]

Hurdiids exhibited a wide range of body size. The smallest known hurdiid specimen, of an unnamed species, is estimated to have had a body length of 6–15 millimetres (0.24–0.59 in), but it is not known whether this specimen was juvenile or adult.[4] Aegirocassis, the largest known hurdiid, was over 2 metres (6.6 ft) long, comparable in size to the largest known arthropods.[5]

Paleobiology

The majority of hurdiids appear to have been predators that fed by sifting sediment with their frontal appendages, but Aegirocassis was a suspension feeder.[1]

Distribution

Hurdiids had a global distribution.[3] The earliest known hurdiid in the fossil record is Peytoia infercambriensis, which lived during the third age of the Cambrian in what is now Poland.[6] The group increased in diversity during the Miaolingian epoch.[3] Post-Cambrian records of the group are rare, but the group lasted into the Devonian period, with the last known taxon being the Emsian Schinderhannes bartelsi from what is now Germany.[6][4]

Classification

Hurdiidae is classified within Radiodonta, a clade of stem-group arthropods. Hurdiidae is defined phylogenetically as the most inclusive clade containing Hurdia victoria but not Amplectobelua symbrachiata, Anomalocaris canadensis, or Tamisiocaris borealis.[7]

The phylogeny of hurdiids, accompanying the description of the hurdiid Aegirocassis benmoulae, is as follows:[5]

Hurdiidae
 

Fezouata hurdiid appendage

 
 
 

Schinderhannes bartelsi

 
 

Peytoia nathorsti

 
 

cf. Peytoia Balang

 
 

Aegirocassis benmoulae

 
 
 
 

Hurdia victoria

 
 

Hurdia cf. victoria

 
 
 
 

Stanleycaris hirpex

 
 
 

Hurdia sp. Utah

 
 

Hurdia sp. Burgess

 
 
 
 
 
 
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References
  1. Moysiuk, J.; Caron, J.-B. (2019-08-14). "A new hurdiid radiodont from the Burgess Shale evinces the exploitation of Cambrian infaunal food sources". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286 (1908): 20191079. doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.1079.
  2. Pates, Stephen; Daley, Allison C.; Butterfield, Nicholas J. (2019). "First report of paired ventral endites in a hurdiid radiodont". Zoological Letters. 5 (1). doi:10.1186/s40851-019-0132-4. ISSN 2056-306X.
  3. Sun, Zhixin; Zeng, Han; Zhao, Fangchen (2020). "A new middle Cambrian radiodont from North China: Implications for morphological disparity and spatial distribution of hurdiids". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology: 109947. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109947. ISSN 0031-0182.
  4. Pates, Stephen; Botting, Joseph P.; McCobb, Lucy M. E.; Muir, Lucy A. (2020). "A miniature Ordovician hurdiid from Wales demonstrates the adaptability of Radiodonta". Royal Society Open Science. 7 (6): 200459. doi:10.1098/rsos.200459.
  5. Van Roy, Peter; Daley, Allison C.; Briggs, Derek E. G. (2015). "Anomalocaridid trunk limb homology revealed by a giant filter-feeder with paired flaps". Nature. 522 (7554): 77–80. doi:10.1038/nature14256. PMID 25762145.
  6. Daley, Allison C.; Legg, David A. (2015). "A morphological and taxonomic appraisal of the oldest anomalocaridid from the Lower Cambrian of Poland". Geological Magazine. 152 (5): 949–955. doi:10.1017/S0016756815000412.
  7. Vinther, Jakob; Stein, Martin; Longrich, Nicholas R.; Harper, David A. T. (2014). "A suspension-feeding anomalocarid from the Early Cambrian" (PDF). Nature. 507 (7493): 496–499. doi:10.1038/nature13010. PMID 24670770.
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