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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda Latreille 1829
Class: Megacheira Hou and Bergström 1997
Order: Leanchoilida Størmer, 1944
Family: Leanchoiliidae Raymond, 1935
Genus: Leanchoilia
Species: Leanchoilia illecebrosa
Author Citation (Hou 1987)
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Paleozoic
Period: Cambrian
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Early
International Age: Age 2, "Stage 3"
Heilinpu Formation
Collector: T. Bastelberger
Date Collected: 06/01/2013
Acquired by: Field Collection
Length: 2 cm
Jianshan
Kunming Town
Yunnan Province
China
Alternative combination: Alalcomenaeus illecebrosus.
Taxonomy from Liu Yu et al. 2007.
Diagnosis for Leanchoilia illecebrosa Hou 1987 from Liu Yu et al. 2007, p. 264: "A species of Leanchoilia with rami of ʻgreat appendageʼ with poorly visible distinction between shaft and filament, and with a single hook on the outermost ramus. Body comparatively slim. Rostrum pointed anteriorly, not extended into a snout. Tail piece dagger-shaped."
Line drawing from Liu Yu et al. p. 265:
References:
Hou Xian-Guang (1987) Two new arthropods from Lower Cambrian, Chengjiang, eastern Yunnan. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 26, 236–256.
Liu Yu, Hou Xian-Guang & Bergström, J. (2007) Chengjiang arthropod Leanchoilia illecebrosa (Hou, 1987) reconsidered. GFF, Vol. 129 (Pt. 3, September), pp. 263–272. Stockholm. ISSN 1103-5897.
Haug, J.T., Briggs, D.E. & Haug, C. (2012) Morphology and function in the Cambrian Burgess Shale megacheiran arthropod Leanchoilia superlata and the application of a descriptive matrix. BMC Evol Biol 12, 162. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-12-162
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