Aquilonifer spinosus is an extinct species of arthropod from the Silurian period.[2][3] It is known from a single fossil specimen found in the Wenlock Series Lagerstätte of Herefordshire, England, in rocks about 430 million years old. The 1 cm long specimen is a stem-group mandibulate, not directly related to any living species. The many-legged, eyeless adult has ten unusual tethered appendages, interpreted as juveniles attached to the parent, in a unique form and previously unknown brooding behaviour.[1]
^ abBriggs, DEG, Siveter, David J, Siveter, Derek J, Sutton, MD and Legg, D, 2016, Tiny individuals attached to a new Silurian arthropod suggest a unique mode of brood care, PNAS Online [1]
^Jonathan Webb, BBC News, 4 April 2016, Bizarre fossil hauled its offspring around 'like kites'
^Cassie Martin, ScienceNews, 4 April 2016 Ancient arthropod kept its brood close
Aquilonifer spinosus is an extinct species of arthropod from the Silurian period. It is known from a single fossil specimen found in the Wenlock Series...
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1926 T. t. przewalskii Bianchi, 1907 T. t. henrici Oustalet, 1891 T. t. aquilonifer R. & A. Meinertzhagen, 1926 the Western Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau...
southeast to Western Tibet and Ladakh. It is paler than the other races aquilonifer, described by Sushkin in 1926, is found in Central and East Himalayas...
A worm-like arthropod of uncertain affinities Tanazios A mandibulate Aquilonifer A stem-group mandibulate Dalmanites A trilobite Tapinocalymene A trilobite...
science (and botanical field work) that Hollywood has yet presented." †Aquilonifer spinosus Briggs et al., 2016 Arthropod The Kite Runner "The name of the...
LC T. t. tschimenensis Sushkin 1926 T. t. tibetanus Gould 1854 T. t. aquilonifer Meinertzhagen & Meinertzhagen 1926 T. t. yunnanensis Yang & Xu 1987 T...
developing colorectal cancer. 4 April Researchers found the fossil of Aquilonifer spinosus covered in carbonate from a formation called the Herefordshire...
David J. Siveter; Mark D. Sutton; David Legg (2016). "Reply to Piper: Aquilonifer's kites are not mites". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
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