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A problematic animal fossil from the early Cambrian Hetang Formation, South China - A reply

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • Publisher Information:
      Cambridge University Press 2019-11-01
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      We recently reported Cambrowania ovata Tang and Xiao in Tang et al., 2019, from the early Cambrian Hetang Formation in South China and interpreted it as a problematic animal fossil, possibly related to either sponges or bivalved arthropods (Tang et al., 2019). Slater and Budd (2019) contested our taxonomic identification and phylogenetic interpretation; instead, they claimed that Cambrowania ovata is a large acritarch referable to morphotaxon Leiosphaeridia Eisenack, 1958, and thus is not an animal. Here we refute their criticisms, clarify the differences between Cambrowania and Leiosphaeridia and other acritarchs, and reiterate why an animal affinity for Cambrowania cannot be ruled out.
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    • Other Numbers:
      VPI oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/96331
      0022-3360
      https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2019.69
      93
      6
      Xiao, Shuhai [0000-0003-4655-2663]
      1937-2337
      1204291316
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      VIRGINIA TECH
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      edsoai.on1204291316
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