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| Parapeytoia Temporal range:
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| Holotype of Parapeytoia yunnanensis, part and counterpart | |
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| Ventral structures of the same species | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Megacheira |
| Family: | †Jianfengiidae |
| Genus: | †Parapeytoia Hou, Bergström & Ahlberg, 1995[1] |
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| Parapeytoia yunnanensis Hou, Bergstrom & Ahlberg, 1995[1]
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Parapeytoia is a genus of Cambrian arthropod. The type and only described species is Parapeytoia yunnanensis, lived over 518 million years ago[2] (Cambrian Stage 3) in the Maotianshan shales of Yunnan, China. Unidentified fossils from the same genus also had been discovered from the nearby Wulongqing Formation (Cambrian Stage 4).[3]
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Yang, Chuan; Li, Xian-Hua; Zhu, Maoyan; Condon, Daniel J.; Chen, Junyuan (2018). "Geochronological constraint on the Cambrian Chengjiang biota, South China". Journal of the Geological Society. 175 (4): 659–666. Bibcode:2018JGSoc.175..659Y. doi:10.1144/jgs2017-103. ISSN 0016-7649. S2CID 135091168.
- ^ Hu, ShiXue; Zhu, MaoYan; Steiner, Michael; Luo, HuiLin; Zhao, FangChen; Liu, Qi (2010-12-01). "Biodiversity and taphonomy of the Early Cambrian Guanshan biota, eastern Yunnan". Science China Earth Sciences. 53 (12): 1765–1773. Bibcode:2010ScChD..53.1765H. doi:10.1007/s11430-010-4086-9. ISSN 1869-1897. S2CID 128882075.