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Pambdelurion

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Pambdelurion is an extinct genus of panarthropod from the Cambrian aged Sirius Passet site in northern Greenland. Like the morphologically similar Kerygmachela from the same locality, Pambdelurion is thought to be closely related to arthropods, combining characteristics of "lobopodians" with those of primitive arthropods.

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Pambdelurion is an extinct genus of panarthropod from the Cambrian aged Sirius Passet site in northern Greenland. Like the morphologically similar Kerygmachela from the same locality, Pambdelurion is thought to be closely related to arthropods, combining characteristics of "lobopodians" with those of primitive arthropods.

==Description== left|thumb|Artist's reconstruction left|thumb|Specimen showing teeth, gut and possible eyes Pambdelurion was large for a Cambrian animal, and is estimated to have reached a length of . Omnidens, an organism from China that closely resembles Pambdelurion and may even be synonymous with it, reached even larger sizes, estimated to be based on the proportions of Pambdelurion.

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