An armoured Cambrian lobopodian from China with arthropod-like appendages
- Jianni Liu, M. Steiner, Xingliang Zhang
- Geography, Environmental ScienceNature
- 24 February 2011
D. cactiformis is described as an ‘armoured’ lobopodian from the Chengjiang fossil Lagerstätte (Cambrian Stage 3), Yunnan, southwestern China, remarkable for possessing robust and probably sclerotized appendages, with what appear to be articulated elements.
A large xenusiid lobopod with complex appendages from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte
- Jianni Liu, D. Shu, Jian Han, Zhifei Zhang, Xingliang Zhang
- Environmental Science
- 2006
A large lobopod, Jianshanopodia decora gen. et sp. nov., with body length (excluding appendages) about 220 mm from the Lower Cambrian Haikou section, near Kunming, Yunnan, southwest China, shows a…
The earliest-known ancestors of Recent Priapulomorpha from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte
- Jian Han, D. Shu, Zhifei Zhang, Jianni Liu
- Biology
- 1 September 2004
The taxonomy of an early ancestor of Recent Priapulidae from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang fossil Lagerstätte, Xiaoheiqingella peculiaris, is revised, and bicaudal appendages are considered to be a synapomorphy of PriapULidae and Tubiluchidae.
Sophisticated digestive systems in early arthropods.
- J. Vannier, Jianni Liu, R. Lerosey‐Aubril, J. Vinther, A. Daley
- Biology, Environmental ScienceNature Communications
- 2 May 2014
Exceptionally well-preserved complex digestive organs in early arthropods from the early Cambrian of China and Greenland are described with functional similarities to certain modern crustaceans and trace these structures through the early evolutionary lineage of fossil arthropod.
Transitional Ediacaran–Cambrian small skeletal fossil assemblages from South China and Kazakhstan: Implications for chronostratigraphy and metazoan evolution
- Ben Yang, M. Steiner, Maoyan Zhu, Guoxiang Li, Jianni Liu, Pengju Liu
- Geography, Environmental Science
- 1 October 2016
Evidence for gill slits and a pharynx in Cambrian vetulicolians: implications for the early evolution of deuterostomes
Evidence is argued that evidence points towards vetulicolians being members of the stem-group deuterostomes; a group best known as the chordates but also including the ambulacrarians (echinoderms, hemichordates), and xenoturbellids.
Origin of raptorial feeding in juvenile euarthropods revealed by a Cambrian radiodontan
- Jianni Liu, R. Lerosey‐Aubril, M. Steiner, J. Dunlop, D. Shu, J. Paterson
- Environmental Science, BiologyNational Science Review
- 1 June 2018
A very small, near-complete specimen of the radiodontan Lyrarapax unguispinus from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota of China is document, confirming that raptorial feeding habits in juvenile euarthropods appeared early in the evolutionary history of the group.
Trunk ornament on the palaeoscolecid worms Cricocosmia and Tabelliscolex from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang deposits of China
- Jian Han, Jianni Liu, Zhifei Zhang, Xingliang Zhang, D. Shu
- Environmental Science, Geography
- 2007
Cricocosmia jinningensis, one of the most abundant palaeoscolecid worms from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang depos− its of south China, was originally described as bearing double longitudinal rows of…
Morpho‐anatomy of the lobopod Magadictyon cf. haikouensis from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, South China
- Jianni Liu, D. Shu, Jian Han, Zhifei Zhang, Xingliang Zhang
- Environmental Science
- 1 October 2007
Liu, J., Shu, D., Han, J., Zhang, Z. and Zhang, X. 2007. Morpho-anatomy of the lobopod Magadictyon cf. haikouensis from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte, South China. — Acta Zoologica…
A miniscule optimized visual system in the Lower Cambrian
- B. Schoenemann, Jianni Liu, D. Shu, Jian Han, Zhifei Zhang
- Biology
- 1 September 2009
This work analyzes the visual system in the lobopod Miraluolishania haikouensis from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte, Kunming, China and shows how this system may have allowed pattern recognition even under poor light conditions.
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