Leanchoilia Temporal range:
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Leanchoilia superlata | |
Reconstruction of Leanchoilia superlata | |
Scientific 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
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Other species | |
(but see text) | |
Synonyms | |
Synonyms of Leanchoilia
Synonyms of L. superlata
Synonyms of L. illecebrosa
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Leanchoilia is a megacheiran arthropod known from Cambrian deposits of the Burgess Shale in Canada and the Chengjiang biota of China.[1]