First Xandarellid from Morocco

[piranha]

Previously known only from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota of South China:

 

Xandarella mauretanica sp. nov.

 

Ortega-Hernández, J., Azizi, A., Hearing, T.W., Harvey, T.H.P., Edgecombe, G.D., Hafid, A., & El Hariri, K. (2017)

A xandarellid artiopodan from Morocco - a middle Cambrian link between soft-bodied euarthropod communities in North Africa and South China.

Nature Scientific Reports, 7(42616):1-13

 

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