Beidazoon
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| Genus: | Beidazoon
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| Species: | Venustum
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| Beidazoon venustum Shu, 2005
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Beidazoon venustus is a deuterostome from the deuterostome group Vetulicolia. It originates from the lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China.[1] Beidazoon was a marine[2] organism discovered by Degan Shu in 2005.[3]
The Beidazoon venustus had a hard outer shell similar to the Vetulicola. Beidazoon had a single band mouth. Its tail is asymmetrical and composed of a hard shell extending from the upper posterior, an axial lobe of seven segments, and a ventral lobe with four or five segments.[3] Shu suggests that the Beidazoon's shell was "beautifully ornamented with numerous nodes".[3]
References
- ^ The Cambrian fossils of Chengjiang, China : the flowering of early animal life. Hou, Xianguang. (Second ed.). Chichester, West Sussex. ISBN 9781118896310. OCLC 970396735.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "IRMNG - Beidazoon Shu, 2005 †". www.irmng.org. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
- ^ a b c Shu, Degan (October 2005). "On the Phylum Vetulicolia". Chinese Science Bulletin. 50 (20): 2342–2354. doi:10.1007/bf03183746. ISSN 1001-6538.