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<article-title>New multipodomerous appendages of stem-group euarthropods from the Cambrian (Stage 4) Guanshan Konservat-Lagerstätte</article-title>
<alt-title alt-title-type="short">New multipodomerous appendages of stem-group euarthropods from the Cambrian (Stage 4) Guanshan Konservat-Lagerstätte</alt-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author"><string-name name-style="western"><given-names>De-guang</given-names> <surname>Jiao</surname></string-name>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="af2"><sup>2</sup></xref><x xml:space="preserve"><sup>,</sup></x>
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<contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid" authenticated="true">http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8063-9469</contrib-id><string-name name-style="western"><given-names>Stephen</given-names> <surname>Pates</surname></string-name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="af3"><sup>3</sup></xref><x xml:space="preserve"><sup>,</sup></x>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="af4"><sup>4</sup></xref><x xml:space="preserve"><sup>,</sup></x>
<xref ref-type="author-notes" rid="an1"><sup>†</sup></xref><x xml:space="preserve">, </x></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid" authenticated="true">http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2256-1872</contrib-id><string-name name-style="western"><given-names>Rudy</given-names> <surname>Lerosey-Aubril</surname></string-name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid" authenticated="true">http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6801-7373</contrib-id><string-name name-style="western"><given-names>Javier</given-names> <surname>Ortega-Hernández</surname></string-name><email>jortegahernandez@fas.harvard.edu</email>
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<contrib contrib-type="author"><string-name name-style="western"><given-names>Jie</given-names> <surname>Yang</surname></string-name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid" authenticated="true">http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7713-5411</contrib-id><string-name name-style="western"><given-names>Tian</given-names> <surname>Lan</surname></string-name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid" authenticated="true">http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4697-0531</contrib-id><string-name name-style="western"><given-names>Xi-guang</given-names> <surname>Zhang</surname></string-name><email>xgzhang@ynu.edu.cn</email>
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<aff id="af1"><label><sup>1</sup></label><addr-line><institution>Yuxi Normal University</institution>, Kunming, 134 Phoenix Road, Yuxi, Yunnan 653100, <country>People's Republic of China</country></addr-line></aff>
<aff id="af2"><label><sup>2</sup></label><addr-line>Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology, <institution>Yunnan University</institution>, Kunming 650091, <country>People's Republic of China</country></addr-line></aff>
<aff id="af3"><label><sup>3</sup></label><addr-line>Museum of Comparative Zoology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, <institution>Harvard University</institution>, Cambridge, MA 02138, <country>USA</country></addr-line></aff>
<aff id="af4"><label><sup>4</sup></label><addr-line>Department of Zoology, <institution>University of Cambridge</institution>, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, <country>UK</country></addr-line></aff>
<aff id="af5"><label><sup>5</sup></label><addr-line>College of Resources and Environmental Engineering, <institution>Guizhou University</institution>, Guiyang 550003, <country>People's Republic of China</country></addr-line></aff>
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<fn id="an1" fn-type="other"><label><sup>†</sup></label><p>Joint first authors</p></fn>
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<pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub"><day>10</day><month>11</month><year>2021</year><string-date>November 10, 2021</string-date></pub-date>
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<volume>8</volume>
<issue>11</issue>
<elocation-id>211134</elocation-id>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>8</day>
<month>7</month>
<year>2021</year><string-date>July 8, 2021</string-date></date>
<date date-type="accepted">
<day>4</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2021</year><string-date>October 4, 2021</string-date></date>
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<copyright-year>2021</copyright-year>
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<p>Stem-group euarthropods are important for understanding the early evolutionary and ecological history of the most species-rich animal phylum on Earth. Of particular interest are fossil taxa that occupy a phylogenetic position immediately crownwards of radiodonts, for this part of the euarthropod tree is associated with the appearance of several morphological features that characterize extant members of the group. Here, we report two new euarthropods from the Cambrian Stage 4 Guanshan Biota of South China. The fuxianhuiid <italic toggle="yes">Alacaris</italic>? sp. is represented by isolated appendages composed of a gnathobasic protopodite and an endite-bearing endopod of at least 20 podomeres. This material represents the youngest occurrence of the family Chengjiangocarididae, and its first record outside the Chengjiang and Xiaoshiba biotas. We also describe <italic toggle="yes">Lihuacaris ferox</italic> gen. et sp. nov. based on well-preserved and robust isolated appendages. <italic toggle="yes">Lihuacaris ferox</italic> exhibits an atypical combination of characters including an enlarged rectangular base, 11 endite-bearing podomeres and a hypertrophied distal element bearing 8–10 curved spines. <italic toggle="yes">Alacaris</italic>? sp. appendages display adaptations for macrophagy. <italic toggle="yes">Lihuacaris ferox</italic> appendages resemble the frontal appendages of radiodonts, as well as the post-oral endopods of chengjiangocaridid fuxianhuids and other deuteropods with well-documented raptorial/predatory habits. <italic toggle="yes">Lihuacaris ferox</italic> contributes towards the record of endemic biodiversity in the Guanshan Biota.</p>
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