Luolishaniidae

Luolishaniidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Superphylum: Ecdysozoa
Phylum: "Lobopodia"
Family: Luolishaniidae

The Luolishaniidae are a group of lobopodians with setiferous forelimbs.[1] The presence of thorn-shaped sclerites arranged as three per segment is diagnostic. The type genus is based on Luolishania longicruris Hou and Chen, 1989, from the Chengjiang Lagerstatte, South China.

References

  1. Hou, X.; Bergström, J. A. N. (1995). "Cambrian lobopodians-ancestors of extant onychophorans?". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 114: 3. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1995.tb00110.x.
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