| Haikoucaris Temporal range:
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| Reconstruction of Haikoucaris ercaiensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Megacheira |
| Clade: | †Cheiromorpha |
| Genus: | †Haikoucaris Chen et al., 2004 |
| Species: | †H. ercaiensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Haikoucaris ercaiensis Chen et al., 2004
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Haikoucaris is a genus of megacheiran arthropod that contains the single species Haikoucaris ercaiensis. It was discovered in the Cambrian Chengjiang biota of China.[1]
- ^ Chen, Junyuan; Waloszek, Dieter; Maas, Andreas (2004). "A new 'great-appendage' arthropod from the Lower Cambrian of China and homology of chelicerate chelicerae and raptorial antero-ventral appendages". Lethaia. 37 (1): 3–20. doi:10.1080/00241160410004764. ISSN 1502-3931.