Bailongia is an extinct genus of arthropod known from a single species Bailongia longicaudata (longicaudata from Latin: "long-tailed") found in the Cambrian Stage 4 aged Guanshan Biota of Yunnan, China. It was around 5mm long and had a large head shield, nine overlapping tapering tergites and a relatively elongate tailspine. It has been recovered in a relatively basal position within Artiopoda, more derived than Squamacula or Protosutura, but outside Trilobitomorpha or Vicissicaudata.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| (unranked): | †Artiopoda |
| Genus: | †Bailongia Jiao et al. 2021 |
| Species: | †B. longicaudata
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| †Bailongia longicaudata Jiao et al. 2021
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Phylogeny
editAfter Jiao et al. 2021.[1]
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References
edit- ^ a b Jiao, De-Guang; Du, Kun-Sheng; Zhang, Xi-Guang; Yang, Jie; Eggink, Daniel (May 2022). "A new small soft-bodied non-trilobite artiopod from the Cambrian Stage 4 Guanshan Biota". Geological Magazine. 159 (5): 730–734. doi:10.1017/S0016756821001254. ISSN 0016-7568. S2CID 245238634.
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