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''Chengjiangocaris'' is an extinct genus of
''C. kunmingensis'' has 20 anterior trunk tergites and up to 16 narrow anterior tergites.
Fuxianhuiid ventral nerve cord and early nervous system evolution in Panarthropoda - abstract
Opinion: Our 500 million-year-old nervous system fossil shines a light on animal evolution
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Sci-News.com * ttp://www.fossilmuseum.net/Fossil_Sites/Chengjiang.htm Chengjiang Maotianshan Shales Fossils FossilMuseum.net
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{{Taxonbar, from=Q21368247 Cambrian arthropods Cambrian animals of Asia Fossils of China Maotianshan shales fossils Cambrian genus extinctions
fuxianhuiid
Fuxianhuiida is an extinct clade of arthropods from the Cambrian of China. All currently known species are from Cambrian Series 2 aged deposits in Yunnan Province, including the Chengjiang biota. They are generally considered to be close to the ...
arthropod known from the Cambrian
The Cambrian Period ( ; sometimes symbolized C with bar, Ꞓ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 53.4 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran Period 538.8 million ...
of South China. It contains two species, ''C. longiformis'' which was described in 1991. ''C. kunmingensis'' was described in 2013 by Javier Ortega-Hernández and colleagues. One specimen of ''C. kunmingensis'' shows detailed evidence of a nervous system.
Anatomy
''C. kunmingensis'' has 20 anterior trunk tergites and up to 16 narrow anterior tergites.
Phylogeny
AfterReferences
Further reading
*Jie Yang et al.Fuxianhuiid ventral nerve cord and early nervous system evolution in Panarthropoda - abstract
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*Javier Ortega-HernándezOpinion: Our 500 million-year-old nervous system fossil shines a light on animal evolution
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Sci-News.com * ttp://www.fossilmuseum.net/Fossil_Sites/Chengjiang.htm Chengjiang Maotianshan Shales Fossils FossilMuseum.net
External links
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{{Taxonbar, from=Q21368247 Cambrian arthropods Cambrian animals of Asia Fossils of China Maotianshan shales fossils Cambrian genus extinctions