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Orthrozanclus

Orthrozanclus (from Greek ὄρθρος + ζᾰ́γκλον (órthros + zánklon), "dawn scythe") is a genus of sea creatures known from two species, O. reburrus from the Middle Cambrian (~505 million years ago) Burgess Shale and O. elongata from Early Cambrian (~518 million years ago) Maotianshan Shales. Animals in this genus were one to two centimeters long, with spikes…

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WiwaxiaOikozetetesHalkieriidsCambrianOcruranus
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History of discovery

Jean-Bernard CaronSimon Conway Morris
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Description

ScleritesUnmineralizedCross-sectionMetameric
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GenusBurgess ShaleMaotianshan Shales
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Orthrozanclus

Nodes29
Edges28
Triples40
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.068966
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related to Classification · 14
Orthrozanclus → Burgess Shale, Early Cambrian, Eohalobia, Halkieriids, However, Its, Lophotrochozoa, Nicholas Butterfield, Ocruranus, Oikozetetes, The, These, Wiwaxia, Zhao
related to history · 12
Orthrozanclus → Burgess Shale, Caron, Dawn, Donald, Greek, In, Jackson, Jean-Bernard Caron, Latin, Maotianshan Shale, Simon Conway Morris, The
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Orthrozanclus → Archived, Ars Technica, Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery, Cambrian, Canada, Ireland NewsNew, Retrieved, Spiky, Virtual Museum, Yahoo UK
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Orthrozanclus → It, The

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genus shale elongata cambrian burgess reburrus wiwaxia two zhao 2017 halkieriids years ago family shell one long et al million

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Ocruranusinstance ofand those of other Early Cambrian fossils0.80text
Eohalobiainstance ofand those of other Early Cambrian fossils0.80text
Orthrozanclusrelated to ClassificationBurgess Shale0.60section
Orthrozanclusrelated to ClassificationWiwaxia0.60section
Orthrozanclusrelated to ClassificationIts0.60section
Orthrozanclusrelated to ClassificationOikozetetes0.60section
Orthrozanclusrelated to ClassificationHalkieriids0.60section
Orthrozanclusrelated to ClassificationEarly Cambrian0.60section
Orthrozanclusrelated to ClassificationOcruranus0.60section
Orthrozanclusrelated to ClassificationEohalobia0.60section
Orthrozanclusrelated to ClassificationThese0.60section
Orthrozanclusrelated to ClassificationHowever0.60section

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