A new species of Hallucigenia from the Cambrian Stage 4 Wulongqing Formation of Yunnan (South China) and the structure of sclerites in lobopodians

2012/02/02 by Michael Steiner, Shixue Hu, Jing Liu +1 · 1 voice · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

paper · pdf · doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1280

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Abstract

Hallucigenia hongmeia sp. nov. and Hallucigenia sparsa are described from the Cambrian Stage 4 Guanshan fossil Lagersttte of Wulongqing Formation from Guangwei in Kunming district, Yunnan

Citations

• New Early Cambrian bilaterian embryos and larvae from China

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