Yunnanozoon

Stem-group Chordata
Genus: †Yunnanozoon
Species: †Y. lividum

Yunnanozoon Hou, Ramsköld & Bergström, 1991

Gender: neuter

Type species: Yunnanozoon lividum Hou, Ramsköld & Bergström, 1991, by original designation

• Hou, X., Ramsköld, L. & Bergström, J. 1991. Composition and preservation of the Chengjiang fauna – a Lower Cambrian soft‐bodied biota. Zoologica Scripta 20(4): 395–411. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1991.tb00303.x Reference page. 

• Chen, J.-Y., Dzik, J., Edgecombe, G.D., Ramsköld, L. & Zhou, G.-Q. 1995. A possible Early Cambrian chordate. Nature 377: 720–722. DOI: 10.1038/377720a0
• Dzik, J. 1995. Yunnanozoon and the ancestry of chordates. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 40(4): 341–360. PDF.
• Mussini, G., Smith, M.P., Vinther, J., Rahman, I.A., Murdock, D.J.E., Harper, D.A.T. & Dunn, F.S. 2024. A new interpretation of Pikaia reveals the origins of the chordate body plan. Current Biology 34(13): 2980–2989. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.05.026 . Reference page. 
• Shu, D., Zhang, X. & Chen, L. 1996. Reinterpretation of Yunnanozoon as the earliest known hemichordate. Nature 380: 428–430. DOI: 10.1038/380428a0
• Tian, Q., Zhao, F., Zeng, H., Zhu, M. & Jiang, B. 2022. Ultrastructure reveals ancestral vertebrate pharyngeal skeleton in yunnanozoans. Science 377: 218–222. DOI: 10.1126/science.abm2708

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