| Yohoia Temporal range:
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| Life restoration of Y. tenuis | |
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| The suggested movement of the great appendage of Y. tenuis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Megacheira |
| Clade: | †Cheiromorpha |
| Order: | †Yohoiida Simonetta & Delle Cave, 1975 |
| Family: | †Yohoiidae Henriksen, 1928 |
| Genus: | †Yohoia Walcott, 1912 |
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Yohoia is an extinct genus of megacheiran arthropod from the Cambrian period that has been found as fossils in the Burgess Shale formation of British Columbia, Canada. The type species, Yohoia tenuis, was described in 1912 by Walcott, who considered it an anostracan crustacean. 711 specimens of Yohoia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 1.35% of the community.[2] In 2015, Conway Morris et al. reported another species, Y. utahana, from the Marjum Formation, Utah.[1]
- ^ a b Morris, Simon Conway; Selden, Paul A.; Gunther, Glade; Jamison, Paul G.; Robison, Richard A. (2015). "New records of Burgess Shale-type taxa from the middle Cambrian of Utah". Journal of Paleontology. 89 (3): 411–423. Bibcode:2015JPal...89..411C. doi:10.1017/jpa.2015.26. ISSN 0022-3360. S2CID 55050961.
- ^ Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 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.