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the opinion of their describer may have been derived from the same general 

 type of animal as the accompanying crustaceans. 



The preceding diagram, which is taken from Walcott, illustrates that 

 author's views as to the relations of Cambrian crustaceans to a theoretical 

 ancestral stock which for convenience is correlated with ^|ms-like forms. 

 From this primitive stock it is assumed that the Branchiopoda Avere derived, 

 and from them three distinct branches were developed prior to, or during, 

 Cambrian time. According to this view Trilobita are direct descendants of 

 Branchiopoda, and in turn gave rise to the line leading through the orders 

 Aglaspina, Limulava and Eurypterida to the Xiphosura. The structure and 

 probable habits of Trilobites lead Walcott to the opinion that these were 

 mud-burrowing animals more or less allied to Limulus. The Phyllocarida 

 and Ostracoda are assumed by the same author to have been derived from 

 the Branchiopoda, but on different lines of descent from that of the Trilobites 

 and the orders grouped under the Merostomata. 



The Eucrustacea are frequently divided into Eniomostraca and Malacostraca, 

 but the first of these groups is not a homogeneous assemblage ; it is rather a 

 repository in which have been placed all forms not members of the Malacostraca. 

 The Eucrustacea are here divided into the superorders BrancJiiopoda, Ostracoda, 

 Copepoda, Cirripedia and Malacostraca. 



Superorder 1. BRANCHIOPODA Latreille.^ 



Eucrustacea in which the carapace may form a dorsal shield or a bivalve shell or 

 may he entirely absent ; the number of body segments and appendages varies greatly ; 

 the appendages of the body are rarely pediform, generally foliaceous and lohed. 



Under the Branchiopods are embraced very differently formed Crustaceans 

 of large and small size, living mostly in fresh water or salt lakes, and 

 possessing little else in common than the leaf- like form of leg. The 

 segmentation of the body in the larger forms is very distinct, but in the 

 water fleas (Cladocera) it is usually quite incomplete. The number of body- 

 segments varies considerably among different genera. In the strongly 

 segmented forms the body is elongated and protected in front by a flat or 

 shield-shaped dorsal carapace {Apus), or it is naked (Branchipus). In the 

 Cladocera and Estheriidae, which are enclosed in a bivalve shell, the body is 



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