Trilobitomorpha

Japanese: Trilobitomorpha
Trilobitomorpha

…The Burgess Shale, which corresponds to the Middle Cambrian period, is a fine-grained rock that is believed to have been deposited rapidly in a deltaic manner under a reducing environment. Many invertebrates are fossilized in the rock. The appendages and soft-bodied structures are well preserved, and the fauna is unique, including various trilobitomorphs such as Burgessia and Waptia , which resemble trilobites, Aysheaia , a primitive arthropod with caterpillar-like segments and multiple legs, and Canadia , a polychaete with delicate segments. It contains more than 130 species from 70 genera, but the Burgess Shale fauna, which is common in strata of the same period, is rarely found. This is probably because the Burgess Shale fauna and many other trilobite groups lived in different ecological environments. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Trilobitomorpha" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…時代はカンブリア紀中期に相当し,還元環境下でデルタ的に急速に沈積したとみられる細粒のバージェスケツ岩中に,多くの無脊椎動物が化石化している。付属肢や軟体部の構造などもよく保存されており,三葉虫に似たバージェシアBurgessia,ウォプティアWaptiaなど種々の三葉形類Trilobitomorpha,イモムシ型の体節と多足をもつ原始節足動物であるエイシェアイアAysheaia,繊細な体節をもつ多毛類のカナディアCanadiaなど,他に類例をみない動物群構成をもっている。70属130種以上を含むが,同時代の地層に多い三葉虫類がごくまれにしか見いだされないのは,バージェス動物群と多くの三葉虫群とは生態的に異なる場をもっていたことが原因であると考えられる。…

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