Guanshancaris

Guanshancaris; Temporal range:
	Drawing of frontal appendage
	Drawing of oral cone
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	†Dinocaridida
Order:	†Radiodonta
Clade:	†Amplectobeluidae
Genus:	†Guanshancaris; Zhang et al. 2023
Type species
	Guanshancaris kunmingensis; (Wang et al. 2013)

Guanshancaris is an extinct genus of amplectobeluid radiodont known from the Cambrian Stage 4 Guanshan Biota of southern China. It is only known from a single species. G. kunmingensis which was described in 2013 as a species of Anomalocaris[1] before being placed in a new genus in 2023. Like many other radiodonts, it is only known from fragmentary remains, including its frontal appendages and the oral cone. It has been suggested to have been durophagous.[2]

References

Wang, Y.; Huang, D.; Hu, S. New anomalocardid frontal appendages from the Guanshan biota, eastern Yunnan. Chin. Sci. Bull. 2013, 58, 3937–3942.
Zhang, Mingjing; Wu, Yu; Lin, Weiliang; Ma, Jiaxin; Wu, Yuheng; Fu, Dongjing (2023-04-11). "Amplectobeluid Radiodont Guanshancaris gen. nov. from the Lower Cambrian (Stage 4) Guanshan Lagerstätte of South China: Biostratigraphic and Paleobiogeographic Implications". Biology. 12 (4): 583. doi:10.3390/biology12040583. ISSN 2079-7737. PMC 10136193. PMID 37106783.

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[1] Wang, Y.; Huang, D.; Hu, S. New anomalocardid frontal appendages from the Guanshan biota, eastern Yunnan. Chin. Sci. Bull. 2013, 58, 3937–3942.

[2] Zhang, Mingjing; Wu, Yu; Lin, Weiliang; Ma, Jiaxin; Wu, Yuheng; Fu, Dongjing (2023-04-11). "Amplectobeluid Radiodont Guanshancaris gen. nov. from the Lower Cambrian (Stage 4) Guanshan Lagerstätte of South China: Biostratigraphic and Paleobiogeographic Implications". Biology. 12 (4): 583. doi:10.3390/biology12040583. ISSN 2079-7737. PMC 10136193. PMID 37106783.