Aysheaia Temporal range:
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Aysheaia specimen number USNM 365608 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
(unranked): | Panarthropoda |
Phylum: | †"Lobopodia" |
Class: | †Xenusia |
Order: | †Protonychophora |
Family: | †Aysheaiidae Walcott, 1911 |
Genus: | †Aysheaia Walcott, 1911 |
Species: | †A. pedunculata
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Binomial name | |
†Aysheaia pedunculata Walcott, 1911
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Aysheaia is an extinct genus of soft-bodied lobopodian, known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada