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Shankouclava
Description | Shankouclava is an extinct genus of tunicate. It represents the oldest, unequivocal genus of tunicates, from 520 million years ago. It has been found in the Lower Cambrian Maotianshan Shale at Shankou village, Anning, near Kunming (South China). Each of the eight specimens found and used for description were isolated, suggesting that the genus was solitary and not colonial. The generic name is composed of the fossil locality, Shankou, and the Latin word clava (club-shaped). From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shankouclava, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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Source Data |
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Rank | genus | |||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Shankouclava | |||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
Classification (GBIF) |
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Scientific Name | Shankouclava Chen, Huang, Peng, Chi, Wang & Feng, 2003 | |||||||
Name Published In | Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100 (14), July 8: | |||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shankouclava |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Shankouclava anningense species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
References
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100 (14), July 8: - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
SN2000/Benton, 2005 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!