''Dianchicystis'' is an basal extinct genus of
vetulocystids. It was found in
Jianshan, near
Haikou, Qiongzhusi Fm. (
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 ...
from China).
Phylogeny
See also
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Haikouichthys
''Haikouichthys'' is an extinct genus of craniate (animals with notochords and distinct heads) that lived 518 million years ago, during the Cambrian explosion of multicellular life. ''Haikouichthys'' had a defined skull and other characteristic ...
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References
Vetulocystidae
Cambrian genus extinctions
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