| Amplectobelua Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3,
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| Reconstruction of Amplectobelua symbrachiata | |
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| Fossil specimen, showing frontal appendages, head carapace, gnathobase-like structures and body flaps | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Dinocaridida |
| Order: | †Radiodonta |
| Clade: | †Amplectobeluidae |
| Genus: | †Amplectobelua Hou, Bergström & Ahlberg, 1995 |
| Type species | |
| †Amplectobelua symbrachiata Hou, Bergström & Ahlberg, 1995
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Amplectobelua (meaning "embracing beast") is an extinct genus of late Early Cambrian amplectobeluid radiodont, a group of stem arthropods that mostly lived as free-swimming predators during the first half of the Paleozoic Era.
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