Sinoburius

<i>Sinoburius</i>

Sinoburius

Extinct genus of Cambrian animals

Sinoburius is an extinct genus of xandarellid artiopodan known from the Cambrian aged Chengjiang Biota of China. It is only known from the type species S. lunaris, which was described in 1991.[1] It is a rare fossil within the Chengjiang assemblage. Like other Xandarellids, Sinoburius has an unmineralised exoskeleton. Adult individuals are around 7-8 millimetres in length, with stalked eyes present on the ventral side. Unusually among artiopods, the antennae are strongly reduced in size.[2]

Reconstruction, in dorsal and ventral views

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References

  1. [1]
    Hou, Xianguang. (1997). Arthropods of the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, southwest China. Univ.-Forl. ISBN 82-00-37693-1. OCLC 614008940.
  2. [2]
    Chen, Xiaohan; Ortega-Hernández, Javier; Wolfe, Joanna M.; Zhai, Dayou; Hou, Xianguang; Chen, Ailin; Mai, Huijuan; Liu, Yu (December 2019). "The appendicular morphology of Sinoburius lunaris and the evolution of the artiopodan clade Xandarellida (Euarthropoda, early Cambrian) from South China". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 19 (1): 165. doi:10.1186/s12862-019-1491-3. ISSN 1471-2148. PMC 6685191. PMID 31387545.


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