Cindarella

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Cindarella
Temporal range: Early Cambrian–Mid Cambrian
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Fossil of C. eucalla
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum:† Trilobitomorpha
(unranked):† Xandarellida
Genus:† Cindarella
Species:
†C. eucalla
Binomial name
†Cindarella eucalla
Chen et al. 1996
Synonyms [1]

Almenia spinosaHou et Bergström 1997

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Drawing of C. eucalla

Cindarella is genus of trilobite-like Cambrian arthropod known from the Chengjiang biota of China. [2] [3] It is classified in the stem group of trilobites (Artiopoda) in the clade Xandarellida, along with Phytophilaspis , Sinoburius , and Xandarella . [3]

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  1. ↑ Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Ramsköld, Lars (March 1999). "Relationships of Cambrian Arachnata and the systematic position of Trilobita" . Journal of Paleontology. 73 (2): 263–287. Bibcode:1999JPal...73..263E. doi:10.1017/S0022336000027761. ISSN   0022-3360. S2CID   84029615.
  2. ↑ Ramsköld, Lars; Junyuan, Chen; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Guiqing, Zhou (1997). "Cindarella and the arachnate clade Xandarellida (Arthropoda, Early Cambrian) from China". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences. 88 (1): 19–38. doi:10.1017/S0263593300002297. S2CID   128675122.
  3. 1 2 Bergström, J. & Hou, X. G. (2003). "Arthropod origins" (PDF). Bulletin of Geosciences. 78 (4): 323–334. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-03-03.


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