Schematic reconstruction in dorsal and ventral views
Life restoration
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Genus:
†Erratus Fu et al. 2022
Type species
Erratus sperare
Fu et al. 2022
Erratus[a] is an extinct genus of marine arthropod from the Cambrian of China. Its type and only species is Erratus sperare.[b]Erratus is likely one of the most basal known arthropods, and its discovery has helped scientists understand the early evolution of arthropod trunk appendages. Some of the stem-arthropods like radiodonts did not have legs, instead they had flap like appendages that helped them swim.[1]Erratus on the other hand had not only flaps but also a set of primitive legs.[2] It also supported the theory that the gills of aquatic arthropods probably evolved into the wings and lungs of terrestrial arthropods later in the Paleozoic.[3]
Fossils of Erratus have been found in the Chengjiang Lagerstätte of China,[4] dating to around 520 million years ago.[5]Erratus was a small, nektonic organism with a bivalved carapace that probably ate by deposit feeding or filter feeding.
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^"Freaky 'frankenprawns': ancient deep sea monsters called radiodonts had incredible vision that likely drove an evolutionary arms race". theconversation.com. 2020.
^Fu, D.; Legg, D. A.; Daley, A. C.; Budd, G. E.; Wu, Y.; Zhang, X. (2022). "The evolution of biramous appendages revealed by a carapace-bearing Cambrian arthropod". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 377 (1847): Article ID 20210034. doi:10.1098/rstb.2021.0034. PMC 8819368. PMID 35125000.
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