Cambrian China

series of Early Cambrian deposits in the Chiungchussu Formation

Innovatiocaris (meaning "innovation crab") is an extinct genus of radiodont from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte of Yunnan Province, China. The genus may contain two named species, I. maotianshanensis, known from a nearly complete young individual measuring up to and isolated frontal appendages, and '''I.? multispiniformis''', known from a complete frontal appendage.

Laminacaris is a genus of extinct stem-group arthropods (Radiodonta) that lived during the Cambrian period. It is monotypic with a single species Laminacaris chimera, the fossil of which was described from the Chengjiang biota of China in 2018. Around the same time, two specimens that were similar or of the same species were discovered at the Kinzers Formation in Pennsylvania, USA. The first specimens from China were three frontal appendages, without the other body parts.

Luolishania is an extinct genus of lobopodian panarthropod and known from the Lower Cambrian Chiungchussu Formation (Maotianshan Shales) of the Chengjiang County, Yunnan Province, China. A monotypic genus, it contains one species Luolishania longicruris. It was discovered and described by Hou Xian-Guang and Chen Jun-Yuan in 1989. It is one of the superarmoured Cambrian lobopodians suspected to be either an intermediate form in the origin of velvet worms (Onychophora) or basal to at least Tardigrada and Arthropoda. It is the basis of the family name Luolishaniidae, which also include other rela

Chinese paleontologist

geologic formation in China

Eximipriapulus is a genus of priapulid-like organisms, perhaps belonging to the crown group, known from the Chengjiang biota.