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The first aglaspidid sensu stricto from the Cambrian of China (Sandu Formation, Guangxi)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2013

RUDY LEROSEY-AUBRIL ,
JAVIER ORTEGA-HERNÁNDEZ  and
XUEJIAN ZHU
RUDY LEROSEY-AUBRIL*
Affiliation:
UMR 5276 CNRS, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon: Terre, Planètes, Environnement, Campus de la Doua, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 2 rue Raphaël Dubois, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
JAVIER ORTEGA-HERNÁNDEZ
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, UK
XUEJIAN ZHU
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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†Author for correspondence: [email protected]
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Abstract

Aglaspidids represent an obscure group of lower Palaeozoic arthropods with a patchy biogeographic distribution. Before the recent description of a representative from Tasmania, these arthropods were exclusively known from Laurentia during the late Cambrian. Here we describe a new species, Aglaspella sanduensis sp. nov., from the Furongian of China, confirming that aglaspidids sensu stricto were already widely distributed worldwide by the late Cambrian; this demonstrates that some aglaspidids had great dispersal capabilities. A new diagnosis of the genus Aglaspella is proposed and the species formerly known as Aglaspella eatoni is assigned to a new taxon, Hesselbonia gen. nov.

Keywords

AglaspididaArthropodaSandu FormationCambrianFurongianpalaeobiogeographyChina
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Rapid Communication
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Geological Magazine , Volume 150 , Issue 3 , May 2013 , pp. 565 - 571
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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