Kylinxia

Kylinxia
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
(unranked): Deuteropoda
Genus: †Kylinxia
Zeng et al., 2020
Species:
†K. zhangi
Binomial name
†Kylinxia zhangi
Zheng et al. 2020

Kylinxia is a genus of extinct arthropod described in 2020. It was described from six specimens discovered in Yu'anshan Formation (Maotianshan Shales) in southern China. The specimens are assigned to one species Kylinxia zhangi. Dated to 518 million years, the fossils falls under the Cambrian period. Announcing the discovery on 4 November 2020 at a press conference, Zeng Han of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, said that the animal "bridges the evolutionary gap from Anomalocaris to true arthropods and forms a key ‘missing link’ in the origin of arthropods," which was "predicted by Darwin’s evolutionary theory." The same day the formal description was published in Nature.

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