Beidazoon
| Beidazoon Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade?: | †Vetulicolia |
| Class: | †Vetulicolida |
| Order: | †Vetulicolata |
| Family: | †Vetulicolidae |
| Genus: | †Beidazoon |
| Species: | †B. venustum |
| Binomial name | |
| †Beidazoon venustum Shu, 2005 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Bullivetula variola Aldridge et al., 2007 | |
Beidazoon venustum is a marine deuterostome from the group Vetulicolia. It originates from the lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China, and was discovered in 2005. It is known as the smallest described vetulicolian, and for its surface being covered in many small nodes.