Jianshania Explained

Jianshania is a genus of Cambrian arthropod known from the Chengjiang biota, containing the single species J. furcatus. It was described by Luo et al. in 1999.^[1] In 2020, a specimen originally assigned to the species was found to represent the separate fuxianhuiid taxon Xiaocaris pending revision of the type specimen.^[2]

See also

• Arthropod
• Cambrian explosion
• Chengjiang biota
  • List of Chengjiang Biota species by phylum

Notes and References

1. Luo . HL . Hu . SX . Chen . LZ . Zhang . SS . Tao . YH . 1999 . Early Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna From Kunming Region, China. . Chinese . Kunming . Yunnan Science and Technology Press . 133363305.
2. Liu. Yu. Ortega-Hernández. Javier. Chen. Hong. Mai. Huijuan. Zhai. Dayou. Hou. Xianguang. December 2020. Computed tomography sheds new light on the affinities of the enigmatic euarthropod Jianshania furcatus from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota. BMC Evolutionary Biology. en. 20. 1. 62. 10.1186/s12862-020-01625-4. 1471-2148. 7268425. 32487135 . free .