Antennipatus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Onychophora |
| Genus: | †Antennipatus Garwood, Edgecombe & Giribet, 2016 |
| Species: | †A. montceauensis
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| †Antennipatus montceauensis Garwood, Edgecombe & Giribet, 2016
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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
[edit]- ^ 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. PMC 5042098.
- ^ 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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