Yunnanozoon

Taxonavigation edit

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Genus: †Yunnanozoon
Species: †Y. lividum

Yunnanozoon Hou, Ramsköld & Bergström, 1991

Gender: neuter

Type species: Yunnanozoon lividum Hou, Ramsköld & Bergström, 1991, by original designation

Hou, X, Ramsköld, L. & Bergström, J. 1991. Composition and preservation of the Chengjiang fauna – a Lower Cambrian soft‐bodied biota. Zoologica Scripta 20(4): 395–411. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1991.tb00303.x Reference page.

Chen, J.-Y., Dzik, J., Edgecombe, G.D., Ramsköld, L. & Zhou, G.-Q. 1995. A possible Early Cambrian chordate. Nature 377: 720–722. DOI: 10.1038/377720a0
Shu, D., Zhang, X. & Chen, L. 1996. Reinterpretation of Yunnanozoon as the earliest known hemichordate. Nature 380: 428–430. DOI: 10.1038/380428a0
Tian, Q., Zhao, F., Zeng, H., Zhu, M. & Jiang, B. 2022. Ultrastructure reveals ancestral vertebrate pharyngeal skeleton in yunnanozoans. Science 377: 218–222. DOI: 10.1126/science.abm2708

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