• Cambrian Stage 3 is the still unnamed third stage of the Cambrian. It succeeds Cambrian Stage 2 and precedes Cambrian Stage 4, although neither its base...
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  • Cambrian Stage 4 is the still unnamed fourth stage of the Cambrian and the upper stage of Cambrian Series 2. It follows Cambrian Stage 3 and lies below...
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  • Stage 2 of the Cambrian is the unnamed upper stage of the Terreneuvian Series. It lies atop the Fortunian and below Stage 3 of the Cambrian. It is commonly...
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  • Stage 10 of the Cambrian is the still unnamed third and final stage of the Furongian series. It follows the Jiangshanian and precedes the Ordovician Tremadocian...
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  • stages: Cambrian Stage 3 and Cambrian Stage 4. Both of these stages also lack formal definition. The Siberian nomenclature distinguishes three stages...
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    The Cambrian ( /ˈkæmbri.ən, ˈkeɪm-/ KAM-bree-ən, KAYM-; sometimes symbolized Ꞓ) is the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic...
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    Radiodonta (category Cambrian Series 2 first appearances)
    order of stem-group arthropods that was successful worldwide during the Cambrian period. They may be referred to as radiodonts, radiodontans, radiodontids...
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  • The Cambrian explosion (also known as Cambrian radiation or Cambrian diversification) is an interval of time approximately 538.8 million years ago in the...
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    panarthropod animal known from the Cambrian of China. It is known from only a single species, P. atavus, found in the Cambrian Stage 3 aged Chengjiang Biota of...
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    Isoxys (category Cambrian arthropods)
    China, Cambrian Stage 4, Burgess Shale, Canada, Miaolingian Isoxys auritus (Jiang, 1982) Chengjiang Biota, Yunnan, China, Cambrian Stage 3, Balang Formation...
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  • Fu, Dongjing (7 March 2024). "A new radiodont from the lower Cambrian (Series 2 Stage 3) Chengjiang Lagerstätte, South China informs the evolution of...
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  • Furongian (redirect from Upper Cambrian)
    Ordovician Tremadocian Stage. It is subdivided into three stages: the Paibian, Jiangshanian and the unnamed 10th stage of the Cambrian. The Furongian was...
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  • the Cambrian Period, and was formally named in 2018. It lasted from about 509 to 497 million years ago and is divided in ascending order into 3 stages: the...
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    Anomalocaris (category Cambrian arthropods)
    Specimens of Anomalocaris have been found worldwide spanning from Cambrian Stage 3 to the Guzhangian. Aside from the Burgess Shale and Emu Bay Shale,...
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    Yuheng; Fu, Dongjing (January 2022). "A new bivalved arthropod from the Cambrian (Stage 3) Qingjiang biota expands the palaeogeographical distribution and increases...
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    Scleroctenophora (category Cambrian animal stubs)
    Chinese Maotianshan shales of Yunnan. It is dated to Cambrian Stage 3 and belongs to late Early Cambrian strata. Scleroctenophorans are easily distinguished...
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    Lenisicaris is a Cambrian anomalocaridid radiodont, known from the Maotianshan Shales of China, and possibly the Kinzers Formation of Pennsylvania. Lenisicaris...
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    appeared during the Cambrian Period. The oldest putative calcarean genus is Gravestockia, from the "Atdabanian" (Cambrian Stage 3) of Australia. Calcareans...
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    Daniel J.; Chen, Junyuan (2018). "Geochronological constraint on the Cambrian Chengjiang biota, South China" (PDF). Journal of the Geological Society...
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  • the Cambrian Stage 3 Mickwitzia Sandstone (Sweden), providing evidence of diversification of molluscan radulae which happened by the early Cambrian. Evidence...
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    Thulaspis is an extinct genus of artiopodan arthropod from the Cambrian Stage 3 aged Sirius Passet site in Greenland. It is thought to be a close relative...
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    Omnidens (category Cambrian animals)
    Chengjiang Biota of China, which dates to approximately 520 Ma, during Cambrian Stage 3. Omnidens-like mouthparts have also been found in the slightly younger...
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    Maotianshan Shales (category Cambrian System of Asia)
    termed Qiongzhusian, a stage correlated to the late Atdabanian Stage in Siberian sequences of the middle of the Early Cambrian. The shales date to ≤518 million...
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    Hallucigenia (category Cambrian genus extinctions)
    Hallucigenia is a genus of lobopodian known from Cambrian aged fossils in Burgess Shale-type deposits in Canada and China, and from isolated spines around...
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    Kerygmachela (category Cambrian arthropods)
    Kerygmachela kierkegaardi is a kerygmachelid gilled lobopodian from the Cambrian Stage 3 aged Sirius Passet Lagerstätte in northern Greenland. Its anatomy strongly...
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    Maotianoascus (category Cambrian animal stubs)
    Chinese Maotianshan shales of Yunnan. It is dated to Cambrian Stage 3 and belongs to late Early Cambrian strata. The species is remarkable for its set of...
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    possible sister group of Hexapoda". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29 (3): 1031–1045. doi:10.1093/molbev/msr270. PMID 22049065. Omar Rota-Stabelli;...
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    there are several hundred extinct genera, some of which date from the Cambrian Period. The class Pterobranchia was established by Ray Lankester in 1877...
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    Timorebestia (category Cambrian invertebrates)
    chaetognath (arrow worm relative) that lived about 520 million years ago, in the Cambrian. Its fossils are known from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte in Greenland...
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    Myllokunmingiidae (category Cambrian chordates)
    very early, jawless prehistoric fish (Agnathans) which lived during the Cambrian period. The Myllokunmingiids are the earliest known group of craniates...
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