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Yunnanozoon lividum (Yunnan + Gr**** ζῷον zôion (animal), with
species name
Latin lividum; (lead-coloured),
referring to
preserved colour of specimens)...
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Chengjiang County,
Yunnan Province, China. One
specimen which they
named Yunnanozoon lividum was a worm-like
animal that
could not be
easily fit into any...
- hemichordate.
Opinions differ about whether the
Chengjiang fauna fossil Yunnanozoon, from the
earlier Cambrian, was a
hemichordate or chordate.
Another fossil...
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include Haikouichthys, Myllokunmingia, Zhongjianichthys, and
probably Yunnanozoon.
Unlike other Cambrian animals,
these groups had the
basic vertebrate...
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characterized by
mountain ranges and
rivers running north and south.
Yunnanozoon –
Lower Cambrian possible chordate Jingshanosaurus –
Early Jur****ic long-neck...
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marine worm in the Priapulida,
bears pharyngeal teeth.
Fossils of the
Yunnanozoon and
Haikouella possess pharyngeal teeth. The
lower pharyngeal bones of...
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possesses a
spiniform structure,
which has also been
found in
animals like
Yunnanozoon. By far the most
distinguishing feature of this
genus is its elongated...
- animal. A wide
range of
affinities have been
proposed for the
enigmatic Yunnanozoon lividum including stem cephalochordates, stem or
crown hemichordates...
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paraphyletic group of stem-chordates,
lying outside a
clade formed by
Yunnanozoon, Cathaymyrus,
Pikaia and crown-chordates. This is in part due to the...
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primitive agnathid and Haikouichthys,
which may be
related to lampreys.
Yunnanozoon may be the oldest-known hemichordate.
Anomalocaris was a
mainly soft-bodied...
