Species official description & visuals
Cordaticaris striatus, is a genus and specis of radiodont from North China, middle Cambrian.
Description[]
Cordaticaris, is a genus & species of Hurdiid radiodont, its discovery and identification, as well as officialy depiction is based on well-preserved specimens from the Zhangxia Formation in Shandong Province, North China; the timeline of these fossils belong to middle Cambrian (specifically: Miaolingian, Drumian). This new taxon is characterized by a heart-shaped central element with linear ornament, frontal appendages equipped with nine blade-like endites including seven subequal elongate endites, a node-bearing ‘peytoia’-type oral cone, and a trunk covered with rows of setal structures. Cordaticaris not only enriches the taxonomic diversity of Hurdiidae, but also further documents the great morphological disparity of hurdiid sclerotized body elements. [1]