Zhongxiniscus
Extinct genus of chordates / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zhongxiniscus is a genus of primitive chordate from eastern Yunnan that lived during the Early Cambrian. Known from a single specimen, it had a small, broad and short, fish-like body that was roughly ten millimeters in length. It possessed S-shaped myomeres, numbering roughly seven per one millimeter of length. Two triangular fins are evident on the dorsal margin.
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Zhongxiniscus | |
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Artist's reconstruction of Zhongxiniscus. | |
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Genus: | Zhongxiniscus |
Species: | Z. intermedius |
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Zhongxiniscus intermedius Luo, Hu, 2001. | |
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