Xandarella
Appearance
Xandarella Temporal range:
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Drawing of X. spectaculum | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
(unranked): | †Artiopoda |
Subphylum: | †Trilobitomorpha |
(unranked): | †Xandarellida |
Genus: | †Xandarella Hou et al. 1991 |
Type species | |
Xandarella spectaculum Hou et al. 1991
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Other species | |
Xandarella mauretanica Ortega-Hernández et al, 2017 |
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Xandarella is an extinct genus of xandarellid artiopodan known from the Cambrian of China and Morocco, the type species Xandarella spectaculum was described in 1991 from the Cambrian Stage 3 aged Chengjiang Biota in China.[1] An additional species Xandarella mauretanica was described from the Cambrian Stage 5 Tatelt Formation in Morocco in 2017, which only preseved the ventral anatomy.[2] Like other Xandarellids, the exoskeleton is unmineralised. The cephalon has pronounced eye slits, presumably derived from ancestral ventral stalked eyes.[3]
References
- ^ Hou, Xianguang. (1997). Arthropods of the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, southwest China. Univ.-Forl. ISBN 82-00-37693-1. OCLC 614008940.
- ^ Ortega-Hernández, Javier; Azizi, Abdelfattah; Hearing, Thomas W.; Harvey, Thomas H. P.; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Hafid, Ahmid; El Hariri, Khadija (March 2017). "A xandarellid artiopodan from Morocco – a middle Cambrian link between soft-bodied euarthropod communities in North Africa and South China". Scientific Reports. 7 (1): 42616. doi:10.1038/srep42616. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 5314411. PMID 28211461.
- ^ Chen, Xiaohan; Ortega-Hernández, Javier; Wolfe, Joanna M.; Zhai, Dayou; Hou, Xianguang; Chen, Ailin; Mai, Huijuan; Liu, Yu (December 2019). "The appendicular morphology of Sinoburius lunaris and the evolution of the artiopodan clade Xandarellida (Euarthropoda, early Cambrian) from South China". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 19 (1): 165. doi:10.1186/s12862-019-1491-3. ISSN 1471-2148. PMC 6685191. PMID 31387545.
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