Pygmaclypeatus

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Pygmaclypeatus
Temporal range: Chengjiang
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
(unranked): Artiopoda
Genus: Pygmaclypeatus
Zhang et al., 2000
Species:
P. daziensis
Binomial name
Pygmaclypeatus daziensis
Zhang et al., 2000

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[]

  1. ^ 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.
  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 |journal= (help)


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