Zhongxiniscus
| Zhongxiniscus Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3,
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Infraphylum: | Agnatha? |
| Genus: | †Zhongxiniscus Luo and Hu, 2001 |
| Species: | †Z. intermedius
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| Binomial name | |
| †Zhongxiniscus intermedius Luo and Hu, 2001
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Zhongxiniscus is a genus of primitive chordate from eastern Yunnan that lived during the Early Cambrian. Known from a single specimen, it had a small, broad and short, fish-like body that was roughly ten millimeters in length. It possessed S-shaped myomeres, numbering roughly seven per one millimeter of length. Two triangular fins are evident on the dorsal margin.