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    Yunnanozoon lividum (Yunnan + Greek ζῷον zôion (animal), with species name Latin lividum; (lead-coloured), referring to preserved colour of specimens)...
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  • Chengjiang County, Yunnan Province, China. One specimen which they named Yunnanozoon lividum was a worm-like animal that could not be easily fit into any...
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    hemichordate. Opinions differ about whether the Chengjiang fauna fossil Yunnanozoon, from the earlier Cambrian, was a hemichordate or chordate. Another fossil...
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    paraphyletic group of stem-chordates, lying outside a clade formed by Yunnanozoon, Cathaymyrus, Pikaia and crown-chordates. From their superficially tadpole-like...
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    possesses a spiniform structure, which has also been found in animals like Yunnanozoon. By far the most distinguishing feature of this genus is its elongated...
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    characterized by mountain ranges and rivers running north and south. Yunnanozoon – Lower Cambrian possible chordate Jingshanosaurus – Early Jurassic long-neck...
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    marine worm in the Priapulida, bears pharyngeal teeth. Fossils of the Yunnanozoon and Haikouella possess pharyngeal teeth. The lower pharyngeal bones of...
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  • precraniate precursors. The precraniate crest animals, such Haikouella and Yunnanozoon, are all extinct and found only in Early Cambrian strata of Yunnan (southwestern...
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    or transitional between olfactores and vertebrates are: Metaspriggina Yunnanozoon Palaeospondylus Zhongxiniscus Haikouella Yang, C.; Li, X.-H.; Zhu, M...
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  • Anatomical reconstruction of Pikaia gracilens compared to Yunnanozoon after Mussini et al. (2024)...
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  • primitive agnathid and Haikouichthys, which may be related to lampreys. Yunnanozoon may be the oldest-known hemichordate. Anomalocaris was a mainly soft-bodied...
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  • canal and a dorsal nerve chord in Pikaia, and recover vetulicolians, Yunnanozoon and Pikaia as early-diverging stem chordates. The most diverse assemblage...
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    Haikouichthys ercaicunensis, another primitive fish-like animal. The enigmatic Yunnanozoon lividum is considered to be the earliest hemichordate, possessing many...
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  • animals"); Parazoa ("near animals"); Ecdysozoa ("moulting animals"); Yunnanozoon ("animal from Yunnan"); Yuyuanozoon ("animal from Yu Yuan") List of Latin...
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  • range is global and includes a number of chordates including Haikouella, Yunnanozoon and early fish like Haikouichthys. c. 514 Ma – Paradoxides trilobites...
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  • Fossil of Yunnanozoon...
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    Ambulacraria A member of the stem-ambulacrarian clade Cambroernida. Yunnanozoon Possible stem-group Deuterostome Banffia Possible stem-group Deuterostome...
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  • Pikaia gracilens, and its Maotianshan shales relatives, Myllokunmingia, Yunnanozoon, Haikouella lanceolata, and Haikouichthys. Some of the reasons for the...
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  • possible Early Cambrian chordate. Nature 377, 720-722. Dzik, J. 1995. Yunnanozoon and the ancestry of chordates. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 40, 341-360...
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