Yuganotheca elegans Zhang, Li et Holmer, 2014

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: incertae sedis
Class: incertae sedis
Order: incertae sedis
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Yuganotheca
Species: Yuganotheca elegans
Author Citation Zhang, Li et Holmer, 2014

Geological Time Scale

Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Paleozoic
Period: Cambrian
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Early
International Age: unnamed Age 3

Stratigraphy

Heilinpu Formation

Biostratigraphy

Eoredlichia-Wutingaspis Trilobite Zone

Provenance

Acquired by: Purchase/Trade

Location

Haikou
Xishan District, Kunming
Yunnan
China

• brachiopods
• cambrian
• chengjiang
• haikou
• heilinpu formation
• lophophorate
• phoronids
• yuganotheca elegans
• yunnan
• yu’anshan

Comments

 

From http://sciencythoughts.blogspot.com/2015/05/yuganotheca-elegans-early-cambrian.html:

 

"An Early Cambrian Lophophorate Animal with affinities to Brachiopods and Phoronids.

Lophophorates are animals which feed using a filter called a lophophore, which comprises a number of setae covered tentacles, to extract food from water. The group includes the shelled Brachiopods, the worm-like Phoronids, the minute Entoprocts, and colonial Bryozoans, and has been shown by molecular and embryonic evidence to be related to the Molluscs and Annelids. Within the Lophophorates the Phoronids and Brachiopods are thought to be closely related, with some studies suggesting that the Phoronids should be regarded as a shell-less subgroup of the Brachiopods."

 

Zhang, Z.-F. et al. An early Cambrian agglutinated tubular lophophorate with brachiopod characters. Sci. Rep. 4, 4682; DOI:10.1038/srep04682 (2014).