Acanthomeridion

Acanthomeridion
Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3, 518 Ma[1]
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Restoration of A. serratum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Artiopoda
Family:
Acanthomeridiidae

Hou & Bergström, 1997
Genus:
Acanthomeridion

Hou, Chen & Lu, 1989
Type species
Acanthomeridion serratum
Hou, Chen & Lu, 1989
Other species

Acanthomeridion anacanthus
Hou et al., 2016[2]

Acanthomeridion is an extinct arthropod found in the Chengjiang fauna deposits of China.[3] In 1997, it was placed in its own, monotypic family, Acanthomeridiidae.[4] It is known from eight specimens, all found in China.[5]

  1. ^ Yang, C.; Li, X.-H.; Zhu, M.; Condon, D. J.; Chen, J. (2018). "Geochronological constraint on the Cambrian Chengjiang biota, South China" (PDF). Journal of the Geological Society. 175 (4): 659–666. Bibcode:2018JGSoc.175..659Y. doi:10.1144/jgs2017-103. ISSN 0016-7649. S2CID 135091168.
  2. ^ Xianguang Hou; Mark Williams; Sarah Gabbott; David J. Siveter; Derek J. Siveter; Peiyun Cong; Xiaoya Ma; Robert Sansom (2016). "A new species of the artiopodan arthropod Acanthomeridion from the lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, China, and the phylogenetic significance of the genus". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 15 (9): 733–740. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1229695. hdl:2381/41202. S2CID 3430086.
  3. ^ X.-G. Hou, J.-Y. Chen & H.-Z. Lu (1989). "Early Cambrian new arthropods from Chengjiang, Yunnan". Acta Palaeontologica Sinica. 28: 42–57.
  4. ^ J. Bergstrom & X. Hou (1997). Arthropods of the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna, Southwest China. Fossils and Strata 45. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-82-00-37693-4.
  5. ^ Xiang-Hong Feng, Xian-guang Hou (2008). The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China: The Flowering of Early Animal Life. John Wiley & Sons. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-470-99994-3.