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. 2019 Sep 3;2:329. doi: 10.1038/s42003-019-0573-5

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Fig. 4 — Revised affinity of the three Bradoriida taxa (Indiana sp., Kunmingella douvillei and Kunyangella cheni) as sister taxon to the euarthropod crown-group. Strict consensus of the most parsimonious trees resulting from an implied weighting (k = 3) parsimony analysis following refs. ^8,9. Former interpretations of Bradoriida^7,8 are included. Bradoriida monophyly is supported by the presence of a free head shield and rows of elongate spines on the inner margin of the frontal appendage (characters 22 and 145, respectively, both homoplastic). Bradoriida are united with the crown-group euarthropods on the basis of their unspecialised or antennate third head segment, contrasting with other stem-euarthropods, which are interpreted as having megacheiran-style appendages (character 188). They are not placed within the euarthropod crown-group because they have eight or more podomeres in their locomotory limbs (contrasting with five or six+terminal claw in most crown-euarthropods; character 280)