Description
Middle Cambrian
Wheeler Shale
Millard County, Utah, USA
Extremely rare, 36mm arachnomorph arthropod on 115mm slab. First we have seen.
Arthropod,
Nettapezoura is a genus of arthropods that may belong to a group more ancient and perhaps ancestral to trilobites. It also appears that Sidneya, a rare arthropod of the Burgess Shale, is the closest-known relative of Nettapezoura.
See:
Hendricks, J. R. & Lieberman, B. S. 2008.
New phylogenetic insights into the Cambrian radiation of arachnomorph arthropods. Journal of Paleontology, 82(3): 585-594.