Kylinxia
| Kylinxia Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3 | |
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| Artist's restoration, following three eye interpretation | |
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| Genus: | †Kylinxia |
| Species: | †K. zhangi |
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| Kylinxia zhangi Zeng et al., 2020 | |
Kylinxia is a genus of extinct arthropod described in 2020. It was described from six specimens discovered in Yu'anshan Formation (Maotianshan Shales) in southern China. The specimens are assigned to one species Kylinxia zhangi. Dated to 518 million years, the fossils falls under the Cambrian period. Announcing the discovery on 4 November 2020 at a press conference, Zeng Han of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, said that the animal "bridges the evolutionary gap from Anomalocaris to true arthropods and forms a key ‘missing link’ in the origin of arthropods," which was "predicted by Darwin’s evolutionary theory." The same day the formal description was published in Nature.
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