Pygmaclypeatus
Pygmaclypeatus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
(unranked): | †Artiopoda |
Genus: | †Pygmaclypeatus Zhang et al., 2000 |
Species: | †P. daziensis
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Binomial name | |
†Pygmaclypeatus daziensis Zhang et al., 2000
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Pygmaclypeatus is a genus of trilobite-like artiopodan arthropod from the Cambrian aged Chengjiang biota of southern China.[1] It is considered to be closely related to Retifacies.[2]
References[]
- ^ Zhang, X.; Han, J.; Shu, D. (2000). "A New Arthropodpygmaclypeatus Daziensisfrom the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, South China". Journal of Paleontology. 74 (5): 979. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2000)074<0979:ANAPDF>2.0.CO;2.
- ^ Schmidt, Michel; Hou, Xianguang; Zhai, Dayou; Mai, Huijuan; Belojević, Jelena; Chen, Xiaohan; Melzer, Roland R.; Ortega-Hernández, Javier; Liu, Yu (2021-08-19). "Before trilobite legs: Pygmaclypeatus daziensis reconsidered and the ancestral appendicular organization of Cambrian artiopods". doi:10.1101/2021.08.18.456779. S2CID 237261790. Cite journal requires
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Categories:
- Cambrian arthropods
- Monotypic arthropod genera
- Fossil taxa described in 2000
- Prehistoric animals of China
- Prehistoric arthropod stubs