Kuanyangia
| Kuanyangia Temporal range: [1] | |
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| Fossil of Kuanyangia pustulosa | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Redlichiida |
| Family: | †Redlichiidae |
| Genus: | † Hupe, 1953 |
| Type species | |
| Kuanyangia pustulosa[2] (Lu, 1941) | |
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Kuanyangia is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the early part of the Botomian stage,[1] which lasted from approximately 524 to 518.5 million years ago. This faunal stage was part of the Cambrian Period.
References
- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on September 5, 2006. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
- ^ Hou, Jin-Bo; Yang, Jie; Zhang, Xi-Guang; Hughes, Nigel C.; Lan, Tian (2019), "Trilobite-based biostratigraphy of the Xiaoshiba Lagerstätte", Papers from the 6th International Conference on Trilobites and their Relatives, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. 173–191, doi:10.1002/9781119564249.ch8, ISBN 978-1-119-56424-9