Sinoburius

{{Short description|Extinct genus of Cambrian animals}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Cambrian stage 3}} | image = Sinoburius_4.png | image_caption = | genus = Sinoburius | parent_authority = Hou et al. 1991 | species = lunaris | authority = Hou et al. 1991 }} left|thumb

'''''Sinoburius''''' is an extinct genus of xandarellid artiopodan known from the Cambrian aged Chengjiang Biota of China. It is only known from the type species '''''S. lunaris''''', which was described in 1991.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hou, Xianguang.|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/614008940|title=Arthropods of the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, southwest China|date=1997|publisher=Univ.-Forl|isbn=82-00-37693-1|oclc=614008940}}</ref> It is a rare fossil within the Chengjiang assemblage. Like other Xandarellids, ''Sinoburius'' has an unmineralised exoskeleton. Adult individuals are around 7-8 millimetres in length, with stalked eyes present on the ventral side. Unusually among artiopods, the antennae are strongly reduced in size.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Chen|first1=Xiaohan|last2=Ortega-Hernández|first2=Javier|last3=Wolfe|first3=Joanna M.|last4=Zhai|first4=Dayou|last5=Hou|first5=Xianguang|last6=Chen|first6=Ailin|last7=Mai|first7=Huijuan|last8=Liu|first8=Yu|date=December 2019|title=The appendicular morphology of Sinoburius lunaris and the evolution of the artiopodan clade Xandarellida (Euarthropoda, early Cambrian) from South China|url= |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology|language=en|volume=19|issue=1|pages=165|doi=10.1186/s12862-019-1491-3|issn=1471-2148|pmc=6685191|pmid=31387545 |doi-access=free }}</ref> left|thumb|Reconstruction, in dorsal and ventral views

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Category:Artiopoda Category:Fossil taxa described in 1991 Category:Monotypic artiopod genera