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Antennipatus

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Antennipatus
Temporal range: Stephanian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Onychophora
Genus: Antennipatus
Garwood, Edgecombe & Giribet, 2016
Species:
A. montceauensis
Binomial name
Antennipatus montceauensis
Garwood, Edgecombe & Giribet, 2016

Antennipatus is an extinct genus of onychophoran (velvet worm). This genus is notable for being the oldest known onychophoran fossil, which comes from France and dates back to the Stephanian stage of the Late Carboniferous.[1] It is uncertain whether the taxon belongs to the stem-group or crown-group, though some phylogenetic analyses conservatively treat it as a stem-group representative.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Garwood, Russell J.; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Charbonnier, Sylvain; Chabard, Dominique; Sotty, Daniel; Giribet, Gonzalo (2016). "Carboniferous Onychophora from Montceau-les-Mines, France, and onychophoran terrestrialization". Invertebrate Biology. 135 (3): 179–190. doi:10.1111/ivb.12130. ISSN 1744-7410.
  2. ^ Baker, Caitlin M.; Buckman-Young, Rebecca S.; Costa, Cristiano S.; Giribet, Gonzalo (9 December 2021). "Phylogenomic analysis of velvet worms (Onychophora) uncovers an evolutionary radiation in the neotropics". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38 (12): 5391–5404. doi:10.1093/molbev/msab251. ISSN 1537-1719. PMC 8662635. PMID 34427671.


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