Bushizheia

Bushizheia
Temporal range:
Fossil of Bushizheia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Genus: †Bushizheia
O'Flynn & Liu, 2020
Species:
†B. yangi
Binomial name
†Bushizheia yangi
O'Flynn & Liu, 2020

Bushizheia is an extinct genus of arthropods known from a single specimen found in the Early Cambrian Maotianshan Shales Lagerstätte in China. The genus contains a single species, Bushizheia yangi. While it had a superficially trilobite-like bodyform, it also possessed large frontal appendages similar to those of radiodonts. It is morphologically similar to Kiisortoqia to which it is probably closely related.

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