宣揚爪蟲科

宣揚爪蟲科; 化石時期：寒武紀第四期 PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ▼
	齊氏揮螯蟲（K. kierkegaardi）復原圖
科學分類
界：	動物界 Animalia
門：	節肢動物門 Arthropoda
綱：	†恐蝦綱 Dinocaridida
科：	†宣揚爪蟲科 Kerygmachelidae; McCall, 2023
屬
	†宣揚爪蟲屬 Kerygmachela; †猶他王蟲屬 Utahnax; †蝠鱝蟲屬 Mobulavermis;

宣揚爪蟲科（學名：Kerygmachelidae）是寒武紀時期的一個具鰓葉足動物的科。目前該科包括三個屬：來自格陵蘭島下寒武紀的宣揚爪蟲、^[1]來自猶他州中寒武紀的猶他王蟲^[2]和來自內華達州中下寒武紀蝠鱝蟲。^[3]這些動物的特徵是發達的前附肢，與其他恐蝦類（如放射齒目）類似，只不過這些屬中存在的前附肢在同一水平面上，並且它們向內彎曲而不是不向下彎曲。宣揚爪蟲類很可能是游動捕食者，利用它們較大的扇鰭（flap）在海洋中的上層游泳，並利用它們的前附肢捕捉小型獵物。 ^[4]

參考文獻[編輯]

^ Budd, Graham E., A Cambrian gilled lobopod from Greenland, Nature, 1993, 364 (6439): 709–711, doi:10.1038/364709a0
^ Lerosey‐Aubril, Rudy; Ortega‐Hernández, Javier. A new lobopodian from the middle Cambrian of Utah: did swimming body flaps convergently evolve in stem‐group arthropods?. Papers in Palaeontology. 2022-05, 8 (3). ISSN 2056-2799. doi:10.1002/spp2.1450.
^ McCall, C. R. A. A large pelagic lobopodian from the Cambrian Pioche Shale of Nevada. Journal of Paleontology. 2023: 1–16. doi:10.1017/jpa.2023.63.
^ Park, Tae-Yoon S.; Kihm, Ji-Hoon; Woo, Jusun; Park, Changkun; Lee, Won Young; Smith, M. Paul; Harper, David A. T.; Young, Fletcher; Nielsen, Arne T.; Vinther, Jakob. Brain and eyes of Kerygmachela reveal protocerebral ancestry of the panarthropod head. Nature Communications. 2018-03-09, 9 (1): 1019. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 5844904 . PMID 29523785. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03464-w （英語）.

[Budd1993-1] Budd, Graham E., A Cambrian gilled lobopod from Greenland, Nature, 1993, 364 (6439): 709–711, doi:10.1038/364709a0

[2] Lerosey‐Aubril, Rudy; Ortega‐Hernández, Javier. A new lobopodian from the middle Cambrian of Utah: did swimming body flaps convergently evolve in stem‐group arthropods?. Papers in Palaeontology. 2022-05, 8 (3). ISSN 2056-2799. doi:10.1002/spp2.1450.

[3] McCall, C. R. A. A large pelagic lobopodian from the Cambrian Pioche Shale of Nevada. Journal of Paleontology. 2023: 1–16. doi:10.1017/jpa.2023.63.

[:0-4] Park, Tae-Yoon S.; Kihm, Ji-Hoon; Woo, Jusun; Park, Changkun; Lee, Won Young; Smith, M. Paul; Harper, David A. T.; Young, Fletcher; Nielsen, Arne T.; Vinther, Jakob. Brain and eyes of Kerygmachela reveal protocerebral ancestry of the panarthropod head. Nature Communications. 2018-03-09, 9 (1): 1019. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 5844904 . PMID 29523785. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03464-w （英語）.

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