Bailongia Explained

Bailongia is an extinct genus of arthropod known from a single species Bailongia longicaudata (longicaudata from Latin: "long-tailed") found in the Cambrian Stage 4 aged Guanshan Biota of Yunnan, China. It was around 5mm long and had a large head shield, nine overlapping tapering tergites and a relatively elongate tailspine. It has been recovered in a relatively basal position within Artiopoda, more derived than Squamacula or Protosutura, but outside Trilobitomorpha or Vicissicaudata.[1]

Phylogeny

After Jiao et al. 2021.

Notes and References

  1. Jiao . De-Guang . Du . Kun-Sheng . Zhang . Xi-Guang . Yang . Jie . Eggink . Daniel . May 2022 . A new small soft-bodied non-trilobite artiopod from the Cambrian Stage 4 Guanshan Biota . Geological Magazine . en . 159 . 5 . 730–734 . 10.1017/S0016756821001254 . 245238634 . 0016-7568. free .