| Zhiwenia Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| (unranked): | †Artiopoda |
| (unranked): | †Protosutura |
| Genus: | †Zhiwenia Du, Ortega-Hernández, Yang & Zhang, 2019 |
| Species: | †Z. coronata
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| Binomial name | |
| †Zhiwenia coronata Du, Ortega-Hernández, Yang & Zhang, 2019
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Zhiwenia is a genus of artiopods that existed during Stage 3 of the Cambrian period and was uncovered in the Xiaoshiba Lagerstätte in China. Only one species is known, Zhiwenia coronata. It is the sister taxon of Australimicola in the newly defined clade Protosutura, which is itself the sister group of Trilobitomorpha.[1]
- ^ Du, Kun‐sheng; Ortega‐Hernández, Javier; Yang, Jie; Zhang, Xi‐guang (2 July 2018). "A soft‐bodied euarthropod from the early Cambrian Xiaoshiba Lagerstätte of China supports a new clade of basal artiopodans with dorsal ecdysial sutures". Cladistics. 35 (3) (published 7 June 2019): 269–281. doi:10.1111/cla.12344 – via CrossRef.