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Jianfengia ✝
Description | List of Chengjiang Biota species is of fossils found at Maotianshan Shales whose most famous assemblage of organisms are referred to as the Chengjiang biota. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jianfengia, 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,PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Jianfengia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Scientific Name | Jianfengia Hou, 1987 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Name Published In | Acta Palaeontol Sin 26 (3) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opinions (PBDB) |
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Status (PBDB) | extinct | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 520 - 516 Ma Cambrian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Recorded Appearance | 516 - 513 Ma Cambrian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Motility | actively mobile | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vision | well-developed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Diet | carnivore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jianfengia |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Jianfengia multisegmentalis ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 4 | 520 Ma Cambrian | 516 Ma Cambrian |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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2002 | Jianfengia Sepkoski, Jr. |
2007 | Jianfengia Bambach et al. p. S78 |
References
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!