| Zhongxiniscus Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3,
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| Artist's reconstruction of Zhongxiniscus. | |
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| Genus: | Zhongxiniscus
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| Species: | Z. intermedius
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| Zhongxiniscus intermedius Luo, Hu, 2001.
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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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