Fossil once thought a caterpillar is now the oldest known nonmarine lobopodian https://phys.org/news/2025-07-fossil-thought-caterpillar-oldest-nonmarine.html paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08483-0

"Originally described in 1865 as a caterpillar, P. anthrax shuffled between classifications—worm, millipede, and eventually a marine polychaete—until 130 years later, when researchers realized its true identity... #Lobopodians bridge the evolutionary gap between a primitive worm-like ancestor and modern #arthropods"

Strausfeld NJ, Hou X, Sayre ME, Hirth F.

The lower Cambrian lobopodian Cardiodictyon resolves the origin of euarthropod brains.

Science. 2022;378(6622):905-909. doi: 10.1126/science.abn6264
• https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn6264

#Lobes #Lobopodians