Maotianshan Shales
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The Maotianshan Shales are a series of Early Cambrian sedimentary deposits in the Chiungchussu Formation or Heilinpu Formation, famous for their Konservat Lagerstätten, deposits known for the exceptio
Outcrop of the Maotianshan Shale, site of the discovery of the Chengjiang Biota
Maotianshania cylindrica, a fossil nematomorph worm, Early Cambrian, Chengjiang Maotianshan Shales
Haikouella lanceolata, Maotianshan Shales, Chengjiang County, Yunnan Province
Heliomedusa orienta
Yunnanozoon
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Yunnanozoon lividum is an extinct species of bilaterian animal from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan province, China. Its affinities have long been the subject of controversy.
Maotianshan Shales
…to Myllokunmingia is Haikouichthys ercaicunensis, another primitive fish-like animal. A wide range of affinities have been proposed for the enigmatic Yunnanozoon lividum including stem cephalochordates, stem or crown hemichordates, craniates, stem deuterostomes, stem bilaterians, or ambulacrarians. Specimens initially…
Yunnanozoon lividum RCCBYU 10310
Well preserved specimen and diagram of body anatomy