Liangshanella

Liangshanella
Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3–Mid Cambrian
Holotype of L. burgessensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Order: †Bradoriida
Genus: †Liangshanella
Huo, 1956
Type species
†Liangshanella liangshanensis[2]
Huo, 1956
Other species
  • †Liangshanella burgessensis Siveter and Williams, 1997[1]

Liangshanella is a genus of Cambrian bradoriid known from the Chengjiang biota and Burgess Shale. 6263 specimens of Liangshanella are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 11.9% of the community.[3]

  1. ^ Siveter, David J.; Williams, Mark (1997). "Cambrian Bradoriid and Phosphatocopid Arthropods of North America". Geological Magazine. 136 (1): 83–108. doi:10.1017/S0016756899461771. ISSN 1469-5081.
  2. ^ Huo, S. 1956. Brief notes on lower Cambrian Archaeostraca from Shensi and Yunnan. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 4: 425-445.
  3. ^ Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. Bibcode:2006Palai..21..451C. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022. S2CID 53646959.