Liangshanella
| Liangshanella Temporal range:
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| Holotype of L. burgessensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Order: | †Bradoriida |
| Genus: | †Liangshanella Huo, 1956 |
| Type species | |
| †Liangshanella liangshanensis[2] Huo, 1956
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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]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ Huo, S. 1956. Brief notes on lower Cambrian Archaeostraca from Shensi and Yunnan. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 4: 425-445.
- ^ 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.
External links
[edit]- "Liangshanella burgessensis". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12.
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