The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China: The Flowering of Early Animal Life

By X. Hou, Richard J. Aldridge, J. Bergström, D. Siveter, D. Siveter, Xiangqian Feng. 2004

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Molecular evidence that phoronids are a subtaxon of brachiopods (Brachiopoda: Phoronata) and that genetic divergence of metazoan phyla began long before the early Cambrian (2005, background): “If so, this node must represent a time earlier than the Lower Cambrian (Atdabanian, 530–524Ma) Chengjiang fauna, among which the inarticulate brachiopod, Diandongia, was well mineralised (Xian-Guang et al. 2004).”
Early Cambrian metazoan fossil record of South China: Generic diversity and radiation patterns (2007, background): “The skeletal fossils (Qian, 1999) and both biomineralized and non-biomineralized organism of the Chengjiang biota (Hou et al., 2004; Chen, 2004) show that there are about 19 extant metazoan phyla (of which ca.”
Early Cambrian arthropods—new insights into arthropod head and structural evolution (2005, background): “longiformis (Hou and Bergström, 1991, 1997; Hou et al., 2004) differs from both taxa in having only 9–10 tergites of almost equal width and similar length, while the remaining possibly 6–7 tergites decrease slowly progressively in width but not in length.”
Birth and early evolution of metazoans (2014, background): “Within the Scalidophora (Kinorhyncha + Loricifera + Priapula), the Kinorhyncha is unknown in the fossil record, an ancestral loriciferanwas described from the Sirius Passet fauna (Peel, 2010), andmany priapulid fossils have found in deposits as low as Cambrian Stage 3 (Chen, 2004;Hou et al., 2004).”
Functional morphology, ontogeny and evolution of mantis shrimp‐like predators in the Cambrian (2012, background): “This is most likely also true for Tanglangia longicaudata, as its great appendage was described as being very similar to that of J. multisegmentalis (Hou et al. 2004).”
Explaining the Cambrian "Explosion" of Animals (2006, methodology): “Nonetheless, the first threedimensional trace fossils and the first appearance of numerous heavily skeletonized taxa occur in the Cambrian, so designating the base of the Cambrian as the time of onset of the radiation is appropriate (Figure 1).”
Remarkable insights into the paleoecology of the Avalonian Ediacaran macrobiota (2015, unknown): “Given their occurrence in largely shallow-marine depositional environments, interpretations as photosynthetic cyanobacteria (e.g. Steiner and Reitner, 2001; Hou et al., 2004), worms (e.g. Jensen et al., 2007), or algae (Gnilovskaya, 1983; Cohen et al., 2009) have beenproposed.”
Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale (2008, background): “…and Chengjiang), characterized by the exceptional preservation of large numbers of nonbiomineralizing organisms, demonstrate that complex marine benthic and pelagic communities flourished soon after the Precambrian-Cambrian transition (Whittington, 1985; Chen and Zhou, 1997; Hou et al., 2004).”