Liangshanella

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]

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

See also

References

  1. Huo, S. 1956. Brief notes on lower Cambrian Archaeostraca from Shensi and Yunnan. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 4: 425-445.
  2. 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.
  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.


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