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Marrella is an extinct genus of marrellomorph arthropod known from the Middle Cambrian of North America and Asia. It is the most common animal represented in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada, with tens of thousands of specimens collected. Much rarer remains are also known from deposits in China.
Omnidens is found in both the Chengjiang Biota and the Xiaoshiba Lagerstätte of China, putting their age at approximately 520 Ma, during Cambrian Stage 3. [7] O. amplus and O. qiongqii are both known from the Chengjiang, but O. qiongqii is the only Omnidens species present at Xioashiba, where it is found in relative abundance (hundreds of ...
Hallucigenia is a genus of lobopodian known from Cambrian aged fossils in Burgess Shale-type deposits in Canada and China, and from isolated spines around the world. [4] The generic name reflects the type species' unusual appearance and eccentric history of study; when it was erected as a genus, H. sparsa was reconstructed as an enigmatic animal upside down and back to front. [1]
There are several Cambrian fossil sites in the Chengjiang county of China's Yunnan province. The most significant is the Maotianshan shale , a lagerstätte which preserves soft tissues very well. The Chengjiang fauna date to between 525 million and 520 million years ago, about the middle of the early Cambrian epoch, a few million years after ...
An extinct ribbonlike sea creature about the size of a human thumb was one of the earliest animals to evolve a precursor of a backbone. Scientists recently identified the animal’s nerve cord by ...
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Wiwaxia is a genus of soft-bodied animals that were covered in carbonaceous scales and spines that protected it from predators. Wiwaxia fossils—mainly isolated scales, but sometimes complete, articulated fossils—are known from early Cambrian and middle Cambrian fossil deposits across the globe.
A fossil of this creature and its tracks were discovered in 2019 in Southern China. [1] It was a segmented bilaterian , conceivably related to panarthropods or annelids . It is a rare example of a complex Ediacaran animal that is similar to animals that existed since the Cambrian , hence suggesting that perhaps the Cambrian explosion was less ...