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SUBMITTER: Liu J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4446521 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Jianni J Ou Qiang Q Han Jian J Li Jinshu J Wu Yichen Y Jiao Guoxiang G He Tongjiang T
Die Naturwissenschaften 20150528 5-6
We herein report a fossilized polychaete annelid, Guanshanchaeta felicia gen. et sp. nov., from the Lower Cambrian Guanshan Biota (Cambrian Series 2, stage 4). The new taxon has a generalized polychaete morphology, with biramous parapodia (most of which preserve the evidence of chaetae), an inferred prostomium bearing a pair of appendages, and a bifid pygidium. G. felicia is the first unequivocal annelid reported from the Lower Cambrian of China. It represents one of the oldest annelids among th ...[more]