Megacheira

Leanchoilia illecebrosa

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Classis: †Megacheira
Ordines: †Leanchoiliida – †Yohoiida
Familiae: †Enaliktidae – †Jianfengiidae – †Leanchoiliidae – †Yohoiidae – ?†Kootenichelidae
Genera: †Actaeus – †Alalcomenaeus – †Bundenbachiellus – †Enalikter – †Fortiforceps – †Haikoucaris – †Jianfengia – †Kanoshoia – †Kootenichela – †Leanchoilia – †Oestokerkus – †Parapeytoia – †Sklerolibyon – †Tanglangia – †Yawunik – †Yohoia

Name

Megacheira Hou & Bergström, 1997

References

Primary references

• Hou X. & Bergström, J. 1997. Arthropods of the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, southwest China. Fossils and Strata No. 45: 1–116. Scandinavian University Press, Oslo. ISBN 82-00-37693-1. PDF. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Aria, C., Caron, J.-B. & Gaines, R. 2015. A large new leanchoiliid from the Burgess Shale and the influence of inapplicable states on stem arthropod phylogeny. Palaeontology 58(4): 629–660. DOI: 10.1111/pala.12161 . Reference page. 
• Aria, C., Zhao, F., Zeng, H., Guo, J. & Zhu, M. 2020. Fossils from South China redefine the ancestral euarthropod body plan. BMC Evolutionary Biology 20: 4. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-019-1560-7 . Supplementary text. Reference page. 
• Conway Morris, S., Selden, P.A., Gunther, G., Jamison, P.G. & Robison, R.A. 2015. New records of Burgess Shale-type taxa from the middle Cambrian of Utah. Journal of Paleontology 89(3): 411–423. DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2015.26 . Reference page. 
• Edgecombe, G.D., García-Bellido, D.C. & Paterson, J.R. 2011. A new leanchoiliid megacheiran arthropod from the Lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, South Australia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56(2): 385–400. DOI: 10.4202/app.2010.0080 . Reference page. 
• Lerosey-Aubril, R., Kimmig, J., Pates, S., Skabelund, J., Weug, A. & Ortega-Hernández, J. 2020. New exceptionally-preserved panarthropods from the Drumian Wheeler Konservat-Lagerstätte of the House Range of Utah. Papers in Palaeontology 6(4): 501–531. DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1307 . Reference page. 
• Siveter, D.J., Briggs, D.E.G., Siveter, D.J., Sutton, M.D., Legg, D. & Joomun, S. 2014. A Silurian short-great-appendage arthropod. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B) 281: 20132986. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2986 . Reference page.