Leanchoilia
| Leanchoilia |
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| Fossil specimen | |
| File:Leanchoilia.jpg | |
| Reconstruction | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Megacheira |
| Order: | †Leanchoilida Størmer, 1944 |
| Family: | †Leanchoiliidae Raymond, 1935 |
| Genus: | †Leanchoilia Walcott, 1912 |
| Species | |
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Leanchoilia superlata (type) |
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Leanchoilia is a four-eyed arachnomorph arthropod known from Cambrian deposits of the Burgess Shale in Canada and the Chengjiang biota of China. It was about 5 centimetres (2.0 in) long and had long, whip-like feelers mounted on frontal arm-like appendages. Its internal organs are occasionally preserved within the substrate in three dimensions.[1] It had stalked compound eyes as well as pit-like ocelli.[2]
Two species are tentatively accepted today: the type species L. superlata and the recently revalidated L. persephone. They may however be examples of sexual dimorphism.[3] 55 specimens of Leanchoilia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.1% of the community.[4]
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Data related to Leanchoilia at Wikispecies- Leanchoilia illecebrosa Ancient Arthropod from Chengjiang The Virtual Fossil Museum
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