Haikoucaris

Haikoucaris
Temporal range: 518 Ma
Reconstruction of Haikoucaris ercaiensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Megacheira
Clade: Cheiromorpha
Genus: Haikoucaris
Chen et al., 2004
Species:
H. ercaiensis
Binomial name
Haikoucaris ercaiensis
Chen et al., 2004

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]

  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.