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'' Parapeytoia '' was a prehistoric animal that lived over 530 million years ago that lived in Maotianshan shales of prehistoric China. Like the anomalocarids that it resembled (or was possibly related to), ''Parapeytoia'' had two head appendages in front of the also anomalocarid like round mouth, eyes on stalks, and a fleshy-lobed posterior with a fan tail. ''Parapeytoia'' had at least 14 pairs of lobes on the sides of the body. Many scientists debate whether or not ''Parapeytoia'' was a true anomalocarid, or rather more closely related to ''Yohoia'' or ''Haikoucaris'', because unlike anomalocarids such as ''Amplectobelua'', it had legs. In total, ''Parapeytoia'' had 13 pairs of legs. Its first two pairs of legs were usually half the length of the remaining ones. Since it had legs, ''Parapeytoia'' was in all likelihood a benthic feeder, spending most of its time on the ocean floor hunting (or possibly scavenging) for prey. The food for ''Parapeytoia'' probably included arthropods (including trilobites), worms, early molluscs and other creatures found in the diversity of prehistoric China. Sclerites interpreted as its mouthparts have since been assigned to a new priapulid worm genus, ''Omnidens''. == References == * (Dinocaridids: anomalous arthropods or arthropod-like worms? by Hou Xianguang & Jan Bergström 2006 ) arguing that this genus is a dinocaridid 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Parapeytoia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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