page_title: Lobopodia
section_title: Described genera
hierarchical_section_title: Lobopodia / Described genera
caption_attribution_description: English: Fossil of Microdictyon on display at the Chengjiang fossil site museum (photographed through glass)
context_page_description: The lobopodians, members of the informal group Lobopodia, or the formally erected phylum Lobopoda Cavalier-Smith, are panarthropods with stubby legs called lobopods, a term which may also be used as a common name of this group as well. While the definition of lobopodians may differ between literatures, it usually refers to a group of soft-bodied, worm-like fossil panarthropods such as Aysheaia and Hallucigenia.
  The oldest near-complete fossil lobopodians date to the Lower Cambrian; some are also known from Ordovician, Silurian and Carboniferous Lagerstätten. Some bear toughened claws, plates or spines, which are commonly preserved as carbonaceous or mineralized microfossils in Cambrian strata.
context_section_description: As of 2018, over 20 lobopodian genera have been described. The fossil materials being described as lobopodians Mureropodia apae and Aysheaia prolata are considered to be disarticulated frontal appendages of the radiodonts Caryosyntrips and Stanleycaris, respectively. Miraluolishania was suggested to be synonym of Luolishania by some authors. The enigmatic Facivermis was later revealed to be a highly specialized genus of luolishaniid lobopodians.
  Antennacanthopodia
  Aysheaia
  Carbotubulus
  Cardiodictyon
  Collinsium
  Collinsovermis 
  Diania
  Facivermis
  Hadranax
  Hallucigenia
  Jianshanopodia
  Kerygmachela
  Lenisambulatrix
  Luolishania
  Megadictyon
  Microdictyon
  Miraluolishania (=Luolishania?)
  Onychodictyon
  Pambdelurion
  Paucipodia
  Siberion
  Thanahita
  Tritonychus
  Ovatiovermis
  Orstenotubulus
  Xenusion
caption: Fossil of Microdictyon sp.
exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "", "Image Make": "Canon", "Image Model": "Canon PowerShot SX240 HS", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "180", "Image YResolution": "180", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image DateTime": "2015:09:05 13:56:55", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image ExifOffset": "234", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "180", "Thumbnail YResolution": "180", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "4992", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "5692", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/40", "EXIF FNumber": "5", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "1600", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0230", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2015:09:03 07:47:32", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2015:09:03 07:47:32", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "5", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "85/16", "EXIF ApertureValue": "149/32", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "149/32", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "3571/200", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2524", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1700", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "Interoperability RelatedImageWidth": "4000", "Interoperability RelatedImageLength": "3000", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "4844", "EXIF FocalPlaneXResolution": "1000000/61", "EXIF FocalPlaneYResolution": "1000000/61", "EXIF FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": "2", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "1", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard"}