''Jianshanopodia decora'' is a Cambrian
lobopodian
The lobopodians, members of the informal group Lobopodia (from the Greek, meaning "blunt feet"), or the formally erected phylum Lobopoda Cavalier-Smith (1998), are panarthropods with stubby legs called lobopods, a term which may also be used as ...
. Its frontal, grasping
[ appendages bear wedge-shaped plates. Its limbs branch,] instead of being tipped with claws as many lobopods' are.[ It has a sediment-filled gut surrounded by serially repeated diverticulae.][ It is thought to have sucked up prey with its short 'trunk'.][ It mainly crawled on the sea floor, but could swim when necessary.][
Its mouth resembles those of anomalocaridids and ]priapulid
Priapulida (priapulid worms, from Gr. πριάπος, ''priāpos'' 'Priapus' + Lat. ''-ul-'', diminutive), sometimes referred to as penis worms, is a phylum of unsegmented marine worms. The name of the phylum relates to the Greek god of fertility ...
s.
References
Prehistoric protostome genera
Fossil taxa described in 2006
Lobopodia
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Cambrian genus extinctions