| Beidazoon Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | † Vetulicolia |
| Class: | † Vetulicolida |
| Order: | † Vetulicolata |
| Family: | † Vetulicolidae |
| Genus: | † Beidazoon |
| Species: | †B. venustum
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| Binomial name | |
| †Beidazoon venustum Shu, 2005
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Beidazoon venustum is a deuterostome from the deuterostome group Vetulicolia. It originates from the lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China. [1] Beidazoon was a marine [2] organism discovered by Degan Shu in 2005. [3]
The Beidazoon venustus had a hard outer shell similar to the Vetulicola. Beidazoon had a single band mouth. Its tail is asymmetrical and composed of a hard shell extending from the upper posterior, an axial lobe of seven segments, and a ventral lobe with four or five segments. [3] Shu suggests that the Beidazoon's shell was "beautifully ornamented with numerous nodes". [3]
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^ The Cambrian fossils of Chengjiang, China : the flowering of early animal life. Hou, Xianguang. (Second ed.). Chichester, West Sussex. 8 March 2017.
ISBN
9781118896310.
OCLC
970396735.
{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) CS1 maint: others ( link) - ^ "IRMNG - Beidazoon Shu, 2005 †". www.irmng.org. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
- ^ a b c Shu, Degan (October 2005). "On the Phylum Vetulicolia". Chinese Science Bulletin. 50 (20): 2342–2354. Bibcode: 2005ChSBu..50.2342S. doi: 10.1007/bf03183746. ISSN 1001-6538. S2CID 86827605.
