Eopriapulites Sphinx--The Oldest Priapulid-Like Scalidophoran Animal

• Published in: Acta geologica Sinica (Beijing) Vol. 90; no. 4; pp. 1537 - 1538
• Main Authors: Tiequan, SHAO, Yunhuan, LIU, Qi, WANG, Jun, DAI, Yanan, ZHANG, Hanhua, TANG, Yongchun, LIANG, Cheng, CHEN, Bo, HU, Meng, WEI, Tingting, YANG
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Richmond Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.08.2016; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc; College of Earth Science and Resources, Chang'an University, Xi'an 710054, Shaanxi, China
• Edition: English ed.
• Subjects: 寒武纪; 早寒武世; 活化石; 狮; 生命; 节肢动物; 面像; 鳃
• ISSN: 1000-9515; 1755-6724
• DOI: 10.1111/1755-6724.12785

Objective Priapulid belong to scalidophoran and is located in the Cycloneuralia branch of the Ecdysozoa. It has survived for more than 50 million years, is a real ＂living fossil＂. Priapulid was extremely prosperous in the Cambrian period. It is a small phylum in the modern ocean; only 18 current types have been described, In the Cambrian life, priapulid is one of the most important living organisms in the sea of Cambrian. The abundance of priapulid is generally much higher than that of other animals, or only after the arthropod, and its differentiation is only after the arthropod and the porous sponge. The priapulid of the Early Cambrian in Chengjiang fossil Lagerstatte has 16 basic groups of seven genera.