Kodymirus
- Europe ( Czech Republic)
Kodymirus vagans is an extinct species of arthropods ( Arthropoda ) from the lower Cambrian.
Features
Kodymirus vagans was about 80 mm long. The head plate was pentagonal in outline and had dorsal kidney-shaped eyes. The five pairs of lateral extremities were einästig, strongly spiny and backward becoming larger. The fuselage consisted of twelve in the direction of the tail spine becoming narrower segments that ended in pleural, longer towards the tail spine expectant, spines. The tail sting ( telson ) was pointed and long tapering.
Locality
Numerous fully and partially preserved fossils of this kind, of which 24 with preserved limbs, were found in the Barrandian ( Prague trough ) in the Czech Republic.
System
The species was due to the similarity with the horseshoe crabs to the lower trunk of pine tree pawl carrier ( Chelicerata ) were counted and classified in the order Aglaspidida. According to van Roy 2006, the type does not satisfy all the features for the Aglaspdida in the strict sense and are therefore managed as Aglaspidida -like.