Described in 2022, the only species Wufengella bengtsonii was discovered from the Maotianshan Shales of Chiungchussu (Qiongzhusi) Formation in Yunnan, China.

[1] The fossil indicates that the animal was an armoured worm that close to the common ancestry of the phyla Phonorida, Brachiozoa and Bryozoa, which are collectively grouped into a clade called Lophophorata.

The fossil was discovered by Chinese palaeontologists Jin Guo and Peiyun Cong at the Yunnan University.

[1] The location of the specimen, Chiungchussu Formation at Haikou, Kunming, Southwest China, is member of the Chengjiang Lagerstätte that is established to belong to Cambrian Stage 3 (between 521 and 514 million year ago).

[1] Luke A. Parry at the University of Oxford identified the specimen as a tommotiid worm, and the description was published in Current Biology.

[1] It has long bristles on both sides of the body that are presumed to be sensory organs for detecting their immediate surrounding such as approaching predators.