Xandarella

Xandarella is an extinct genus of xandarellid artiopodan known from the Cambrian of China, the type species Xandarella spectaculum was described in 1991 from the Cambrian Stage 3 aged Chengjiang Biota in China.

[1] Although an additional species Xandarella mauretanica was described from the Cambrian Stage 5 Tatelt Formation in Morocco in 2017, which preserved only the ventral anatomy,[2] it is later found that is a species of trilobite Gigoutella instead.

[3] Like other Xandarellids, the exoskeleton is unmineralised.

The cephalon has pronounced eye slits, presumably derived from ancestral ventral stalked eyes.

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