Kuanyangia

Kuanyangia
Temporal range: Early Botomian
Fossil of Kuanyangia pustulosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: †Artiopoda
Class: †Trilobita
Order: †Redlichiida
Family: †Redlichiidae
Subfamily: †Wutingaspinae
Genus: †Kuanyangia
Hupe, 1953
Type species
Kuanyangia pustulosa
(Lu, 1941)
Species
  • K. bella Chen, 1983
  • K. granulosa Zhang, 1966
  • K. pustulosa (Lu, 1941)
  • K. shaanxiensis Zhang & Lin, 1980
Synonyms

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, which lasted from approximately 524 to 518.5 million years ago. This faunal stage was part of the Cambrian Period.

References

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. ↑ 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