- journal_title：Geological Magazine
- Contributor：RUDY LEROSEY-AUBRIL ; JAVIER ORTEGA-HERNÁNDEZ ; XUEJIAN ZHU
- Publisher：Cambridge University Press
- Date：2013-05-01
- Format：text/html
- Language：en
- Identifier：10.1017/S0016756812001045
- journal_abbrev：Geological Magazine
- issn：0016-7568
- volume：150
- issue：3
- firstpage：565
- section：Rapid Communication
Aglaspidids represent an obscure group of lower Palaeozoic arthropods with a patchy biogeographic distribution. Before the recent description of a representative from Tasmania, these arthropods were exclusively known from Laurentia during the late Cambrian. Here we describe a new species, Aglaspella sanduensis sp. nov., from the Furongian of China, confirming that aglaspidids sensu stricto were already widely distributed worldwide by the late Cambrian; this demonstrates that some aglaspidids had great dispersal capabilities. A new diagnosis of the genus Aglaspella is proposed and the species formerly known as Aglaspella eatoni is assigned to a new taxon, Hesselbonia gen. nov.