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

dc.contributor.authorTang, Qingen
dc.contributor.authorHu, Jieen
dc.contributor.authorXie, Guweien
dc.contributor.authorYuan, Xunlaien
dc.contributor.authorWan, Binen
dc.contributor.authorZhou, Chuanmingen
dc.contributor.authorDong, Xuen
dc.contributor.authorCao, Guohuaen
dc.contributor.authorLieberman, Bruce S.en
dc.contributor.authorLeys, Sally P.en
dc.contributor.authorXiao, Shuhaien
dc.contributor.departmentGeosciencesen
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-08T16:43:58Zen
dc.date.available2020-01-08T16:43:58Zen
dc.date.issued2019-11-01en
dc.date.updated2020-01-08T16:43:56Zen
dc.description.abstractWe 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.en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.extentPages 1279-1282en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2019.69en
dc.identifier.eissn1937-2337en
dc.identifier.issn0022-3360en
dc.identifier.issue6en
dc.identifier.orcidXiao, Shuhai [0000-0003-4655-2663]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/96331en
dc.identifier.volume93en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
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dc.subjectPaleontologyen
dc.subject0403 Geologyen
dc.subject0602 Ecologyen
dc.subject0603 Evolutionary Biologyen
dc.titleA problematic animal fossil from the early Cambrian Hetang Formation, South China - A replyen
dc.title.serialJournal of Paleontologyen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.typeBook reviewen
dc.type.otherJournalen
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