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A new species of the deuterostome Herpetogaster from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota of South China.
The Science of Nature ( IF 2.1 ) Pub Date : 2020-08-28 , DOI: 10.1007/s00114-020-01695-w Xianfeng Yang 1, 2 , Julien Kimmig 3, 4 , Bruce S Lieberman 3, 5 , Shanchi Peng 2, 6
The Science of Nature ( IF 2.1 ) Pub Date : 2020-08-28 , DOI: 10.1007/s00114-020-01695-w Xianfeng Yang 1, 2 , Julien Kimmig 3, 4 , Bruce S Lieberman 3, 5 , Shanchi Peng 2, 6
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The Cambrian radiation represents a key time period in the history of life. Here, we add to the mounting evidence accumulating on the nature of deuterostomes from this time period through description of a new species of stalked deuterostome, Herpetogaster haiyanensis nov. sp., from the lower Cambrian (series 2, stage 3) Chengjiang biota of China. This represents the first occurrence of the genus in Gondwana, the first juvenile specimen, and the oldest specimens to date. Herpetogaster haiyanensis nov. sp. differs from H. collinsi Caron et al. (2010) in having a stolon that is separated into an outer and inner layer, the segmentation of the body and in the shape and number of branches of the tentacles. The new species reiterates earlier suggestions of deuterostome affinities of the genus―it appears closely related to Phlogites and then successively more distantly related to Cotyledon and Eldonia―and may have fed on hyolithids.
更新日期：2020-08-28
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