Lobopodians

Lobopodya

Lobopodia is a group of poorly understood animals, which mostly fall into a stem group of arthropods. These it usually refers to a group of soft-bodied, worm-like fossil panarthropods.

List of Lobopods

Hallucigeniidae

The Hallucigeniidae is a family of extinct worms belonging to the group Lobopodia that originated during the Cambrian explosion. It is based on the species Hallucigenia sparsa, the fossil of which was discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1911 from the Burgess Shale of British Columbia. The name Hallucigenia was created by Simon Conway Morris in 1977, from which the family was erected after discoveries of other hallucigeniid worms from other parts of the world.