LIU, Y., SHAO, T., ZHANG, H., WANG, Q., ZHANG, Y., CHEN, C., LIANG, Y., XUE, J. 2017. A new scyphozoan from the Cambrian Fortunian Stage of South China. Palaeontology, 60, 4, 511-518. DOI: 10.1111/pala.12306
Yunhuan Liu, Tiequan Shao, Huaqiao Zhang, Qi Wang, Yanan Zhang, Cheng Chen, Yongchun Liang, and Jiaqi Xue- Yunhuan Liu - College of Earth Science & Resources Chang'an University Xi'an China (Email: stotto@163.com)
- Tiequan Shao - College of Earth Science & Resources Chang'an University Xi'an China (Email: zytqshao@chd.edu.cn)
- Huaqiao Zhang - State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology & Stratigraphy Nanjing Institute of Geology & Palaeontology Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing China (Email: hqzhang@nigpas.ac.cn)
- Qi Wang - College of Earth Science & Resources Chang'an University Xi'an China (Email: 2015127039@chd.edu.cn)
- Yanan Zhang - College of Earth Science & Resources Chang'an University Xi'an China
- Cheng Chen - College of Earth Science & Resources Chang'an University Xi'an China
- Yongchun Liang - College of Earth Science & Resources Chang'an University Xi'an China
- Jiaqi Xue - College of Earth Science & Resources Chang'an University Xi'an China
- Issue published online: 12 June 2017
- Manuscript Accepted: 06 May 2017
- Manuscript Received: 27 March 2017
Animals with radial symmetry are abundant in the Cambrian Fortunian Stage of South China, but with relatively low diversity: representatives include Olivooides, Quadrapyrgites, carinachitiids, hexangulaconulariids and Pseudooides. Here, we report a new radial animal, Qinscyphus necopinus gen. et sp. nov., from the Fortunian small shelly fauna of southern Shaanxi Province, South China. Qinscyphus necopinus has a cup‐shaped profile, with slightly raised annuli and five groups of triangular thickenings in pentaradial symmetry. This organism has a comparable morphology to, and thus a close affinity with, Olivooides and Quadrapyrgites, and is interpreted as a coronate scyphozoan. This discovery adds a new crown‐group cnidarian to the Cambrian Explosion.
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