Tuzoia

Tuzoia
Temporal range: Cambrian Series 2–Miaolingian
Carapace of Tuzoia retifera
Life restoration
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Order: Hymenocarina
Family: Tuzoiidae
Genus: Tuzoia
Walcott, 1912
Type species
Tuzoia retifera
Walcott, 1912
Species

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Tuzoia (from Mount Tuzo, a mountain in the Canadian Rockies) is an extinct genus of large bivalved arthropod known from Early to Middle Cambrian marine environments from what is now North America, Australia, China, Europe and Siberia. The large, domed carapace reached lengths of 180 millimetres (7.1 in), making them amongst the largest known Cambrian arthropods.