Sinoburius

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Sinoburius
Temporal range: Cambrian stage 3
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Artiopoda
Subphylum: Trilobitomorpha
(unranked): Xandarellida
Genus: Sinoburius
Hou et al. 1991
Species:
S. lunaris
Binomial name
Sinoburius lunaris
Hou et al. 1991
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Sinoburius is an extinct genus of xandarellid artiopodan known from the Cambrian aged Chengjiang Biota of China. It is only known from the type species S. lunaris, which was described in 1991. [1] It is a rare fossil within the Chengjiang assemblage. Like other Xandarellids, Sinoburius has an unmineralised exoskeleton. Adult individuals are around 7-8 millimetres in length, with stalked eyes present on the ventral side. Unusually among artiopods, the antennae are strongly reduced in size. [2]

Reconstruction, in dorsal and ventral views Sinoburius 7.png
Reconstruction, in dorsal and ventral views

References

  1. Hou, Xianguang. (1997). Arthropods of the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, southwest China. Univ.-Forl. ISBN   82-00-37693-1. OCLC   614008940.
  2. Chen, Xiaohan; Ortega-Hernández, Javier; Wolfe, Joanna M.; Zhai, Dayou; Hou, Xianguang; Chen, Ailin; Mai, Huijuan; Liu, Yu (December 2019). "The appendicular morphology of Sinoburius lunaris and the evolution of the artiopodan clade Xandarellida (Euarthropoda, early Cambrian) from South China". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 19 (1): 165. doi: 10.1186/s12862-019-1491-3 . ISSN   1471-2148. PMC   6685191 . PMID   31387545.