Leanchoilia

Leanchoilia
Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3–Middle Cambrian
Leanchoilia superlata
Reconstruction of Leanchoilia superlata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Megacheira
Order: Leanchoilida
Størmer, 1944
Family: Leanchoiliidae
Raymond, 1935
Genus: Leanchoilia
Walcott, 1912
Type species
Leanchoilia superlata
Walcott, 1912
Other species
  • Leanchoilia illecebrosa (Hou, 1987)
  • Leanchoilia obesa He et al., 2017
  • Leanchoilia persephone Simonetta, 1970
  • Leanchoilia protogonia Simonetta, 1970
  • Leanchoilia robisoni Babcock et al., 2012
  • Leanchoilia? hanceyi Briggs et al., 2008

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Synonyms
Synonyms of Leanchoilia
  • Bidentia Walcott, 1912
Synonyms of L. superlata
  • Bidentia difficilis Walcott, 1912
Synonyms of L. illecebrosa

Leanchoilia is a megacheiran arthropod known from Cambrian deposits of the Burgess Shale in Canada and the Chengjiang biota of China.[1]

  1. ^ "Burgess Shale: Leanchoilia superlata (an arthropod)". Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 6 July 2017.