Orthrozanclus elongata n. sp and the significance of sclerite-covered taxa for early trochozoan evolution

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Zhao, Fangchen (赵方臣), Smith, Martin R., Yin, Zongjun (殷宗军), Zeng, Han (曾晗), Li, Guoxiang (李国祥), Zhu, Maoyan (朱茂炎)
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP 2017
• Subjects: Stem Group Brachiopod; Wiwaxia-corrugata Matthew; Cambrian Burgess Shale; South-australia; Articulated Halkieriids; Shelled Brachiopods; Molluscan Phylogeny; North Greenland; Morphology; Biomineralization; Science & Technology - Other Topics; Multidisciplinary Sciences; Burgess; Greenland
• Online Access: http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/13905; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-16304-6

Orthrozanclus is a shell-bearing, sclerite covered Cambrian organism of uncertain taxonomic affinity, seemingly representing an intermediate between its fellow problematica Wiwaxia and Halkieria. Attempts to group these slug-like taxa into a single 'halwaxiid' clade nevertheless present st...