Paucipodia inermis is a lobopod known from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang lagerstätte.[1] Its gut is puzzling; in some places, it is preserved in three dimensions, infilled with sediment; whereas in others it may be flat. These cannot result from phosphatisation, which is usually responsible for three-dimensional gut preservation,[2] for the phosphate content of the guts is under 1% – the contents comprise quartz and muscovite.[1] Its fossils do not suggest it had any sclerites, especially when compared with the related Hallucigenia.[1]
^ abcXian-Guang Hou; Xiao-Ya Ma; Jie Zhao; Jan Bergström (2004). "The lobopodian Paucipodia inermis from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, Yunnan, China". Lethaia. 37 (3): 235–244. Bibcode:2004Letha..37..235H. doi:10.1080/00241160410006555.
^Nicholas J. Butterfield (2002). "Leanchoilia guts and the interpretation of three-dimensional structures in Burgess Shale-type fossils". Paleobiology. 28 (1): 155–171. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2002)028<0155:LGATIO>2.0.CO;2. S2CID 85606166.
Paucipodia inermis is a lobopod known from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang lagerstätte. Its gut is puzzling; in some places, it is preserved in three dimensions...
lobopods (e.g. Aysheaia, Hallucigenia sparsa) or a tail-like extension (e.g. Paucipodia, Siberion, Jianshanopodia). The lobopods are flexible and loosely conical...
such as Hallucigenia, Onychodictyon, Cardiodictyon, Luolishania, and Paucipodia. The isolated sclerites of Microdictyon are known from other Lower Cambrian...
including many early panarthropods, with six genera represented: Luolishania, Paucipodia, Cardiodictyon, Hallucigenia (also known from the Burgess Shale), Microdictyon...
head more similar to other lobopodians such as Microdictyon sinicum, Paucipodia inermis, and Hallucigenia sparsa. However, the relatively thick and elongated...
disappeared. Majority of the long-legged lobopodians such as Hallucigenia, Paucipodia and Orstenotubulus are known only during the Cambrian explosion. When...
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