An early Cambrian craniate-like chordate
@article{Chen1999AnEC, title={An early Cambrian craniate-like chordate}, author={Jun‐yuan Chen and Diying Huang and CHIA-WEI Li}, journal={Nature}, year={1999}, volume={402}, pages={518-522} }
Since the identification of the Lower Cambrian Yunnanozoon as a chordate in 1995 (ref. 1), large numbers of complete specimens of soft-bodied chordates from the Lower Cambrian Maotianshan Shale in central Yunnan (southern China) have been recovered. Here we describe a recently discovered craniate-like chordate, Haikouella lanceolata, from 305 fossil specimens in Haikou near Kunming. This 530 million-year-old (Myr) fish-like animal resembles the contemporaneous Yunnanozoon from the Chengjiang…
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