scholarly journals A new euarthropod with ‘great appendage’-like frontal head limbs from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte, Southwest China

10.26879/1069 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert O’Flynn ◽  
Denis Audo ◽  
Mark Williams ◽  
Dayou Zhai ◽  
Hong Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southwest China ◽  
Chengjiang Lagerstätte

The Burgess Shale arthropod Mollisonia (M. sinica new species): new occurrence from the Middle Cambrian Kaili fauna of southwest China

2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (6) ◽  
pp. 1106-1108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingliang Zhang ◽  
Yuanlong Zhao ◽  
Ruidong Yang ◽  
Degan Shu
Keyword(s):  
Southwest China ◽  
Middle Part ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
Cambrian Explosion ◽  
Early Cambrian ◽  
Burgess Shale ◽  
Middle Cambrian ◽  
Lowermost Part ◽  
Dark Green ◽  
Chengjiang Lagerstätte

The Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, Yunnan Province, Southwest China, has become one of the most celebrated Cambrian fossil Lagerstatten not only for perhaps the earliest biota of soft-bodied organisms in the Phanerozoic (Yuan and Zhao, 1999; Zhang et aI., 2001; but see Budd and Jensen, 2000), but also for a number of significant discoveries (Shu et al., 1996a, 1996b, 1999a, 1999b, 2001), proven to be of particular importance for our understanding the Cambrian explosion. Also in Southwest China, Guizhou Province, there is a very significant, although less acclaimed, Middle Cambrian soft-bodied fauna as well, namely the Kaili fauna, which occurs in the Kaili Formation in Kaili area (Kuizhou). The age of the Kaili Formation ranges from late Early to early Middle Cambrian. Regionally, the Kaili Formation is about 222 m thick and consists of three parts. The lowermost part (late Early Cambrian, about 55 m thick) is dominated by thin, calcareous siltstone strata interbedded with limestone layers at the base. The middle part (early Middle Cambrian, ca. 123 m) consists of dark green mudstone and shale, while the uppermost part (ca. 44 m) is composed of interbedded limestone and silty shale. The Kaili fauna is derived from mudstones in the middle part of the formation (Zhao et aI., 1994; Zhu et aI., 2000).

A New Helmetiid Arthropod from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, Southwest China

2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fangchen Zhao ◽  
Shixue Hu ◽  
Han Zeng ◽  
Maoyan Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Anterior Margin ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Posterolateral Corner ◽  
Early Cambrian ◽  
Body Width ◽  
Total Body ◽  
Chengjiang Lagerstätte ◽  
Cephalic Shield

A new arthropod, Haifengella corona new genus new species is described from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte (Series 2, Stage 3), Yunnan Province, southwest China. It is readily assignable to helmetiida based on gross morphology of the tergum. The new helmetiid is unique in having the marginal spines extending over one-third of the total body width. The weakly sclerotized tergum consists of six thoracic tergites with edge-to-edge tergite articulations. The sub-trapezoidal cephalic shield has a pair of long spines projecting from each posterolateral corner. A prehypostomal sclerite (anterior sclerite) recesses in the anterior margin of the cephalic shield, and a pair of bulges that are close to the prehypostomal sclerite in the cephalic shield are presumed to be the position of ventral eyes. Each of the thoracic tergites exhibits a pair of long spines projecting from the posterolateral corners. The semicircular pygidium carries one terminal spine and two pairs of lateral spines.

A new xandarellid arthropod from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte, Lower Cambrian of Southwest China

Geobios ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingliang Zhang ◽  
Dongjing Fu ◽  
Tao Dai
Keyword(s):  
Lower Cambrian ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Chengjiang Lagerstätte

Using species distribution modeling to improve conservation of medicinal plants in Southwest China

Planta Medica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 81 (S 01) ◽  
pp. S1-S381
Author(s):  
B Liu ◽  
F Li ◽  
Z Guo ◽  
L Hong ◽  
W Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Species Distribution ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Species Distribution Modeling ◽  
Distribution Modeling

Prince Henri d'Orleans (1867–1901): geographical and botanical exploration between inner Asia and southwest China

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-399
Author(s):  
WILLIAM GARDENER
Keyword(s):  
Southwest China ◽  
Western China ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Inner Asia ◽  
Botanical Exploration ◽  
Western Yunnan ◽  
Westerly Direction ◽  
Chinese Province ◽  
The Right ◽  
North Western

Prince Henri d'Orleans, precluded by French law from serving his country in the profession of arms, had his attention turned early towards exploration. In 1889, accompanied by the experienced traveller Gabriel Bonvalet, he set out from Paris to reach Indo-China overland by way of Central Asia, Tibet and western and south western China. The journey made contributions in the problems of the whereabouts of Lap Nor and the configuration of the then unexplored northern plateau of Tibet; and in botany it produced some species new to science. The party reached Indo-China in 1890. In 1895, having organised an expedition better equipped for topographical survey and for investigations in the fields of natural history and ethnography, Prince Henri set out from Hanoi with the intention of exploring the Mekong through the Chinese province of Yunnan. After proceeding up the left bank of the Salween for a brief part of its course and then alternating between the right and left banks of the Mekong as far up as Tzeku, the party found it advisable to enter Tibet in a north westerly direction through the province of Chamdo and instead crossed the south eastern extremity of the country, the Zayul, by a difficult track which led them to the country of the Hkamti Shans in present day Upper Burma, and thence to India completing a journey of 2000 miles, "1500 of which had been previously untrodden" (Prince Henri). West of the Mekong, the journey established that the Salween, which some geographers had claimed took its rise in or near north western Yunnan, in fact rose well north in Tibet, and that, contrary to previous opinions, the principal headwater of the Irrawaddy rose no further north than latitude 28°30'. Botanical collections were confined to Yunnan, where the tracks permitted mule transport, and they produced a number of species new to science and extended the range of distribution of species already known.

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