| Vetulocystidae Temporal range: Early Cambrian - Middle Cambrian
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| Reconstruction of 2 specimens of Vetulocystis catenata (in the lower part), and the chordate Cathaymyrus diadexus. | |
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| (unranked): | †Vetulocystida
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| Family: | †Vetulocystidae Shu, et al., 2004
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| †Vetulocystis catenata Shu, et al., 2004
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Vetulocystidae is the only family of the taxon Vetulocystida, which is a group of extinct deuterostomes of uncertain phylogenetic position. Vetulocystidae is made up of the genera Vetulocystis, Dianchicystis and Thylacocercus.[1][2]
- ^ Shu, D.-G.; Conway Morris, S.; Han, J.; Zhang, Z.-F.; Liu, J.-N. (2004). "Ancestral echinoderms from the Chengjiang deposits of China". Nature. 430 (6998): 422–428. Bibcode:2004Natur.430..422S. doi:10.1038/nature02648. PMID 15269760. S2CID 4421182.
- ^ Rare primitive deuterostomes from the Cambrian (Series 3) of Utah (PDF). Vol. 89. 2015. pp. 631–636.
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