Luolishaniidae

Luolishaniidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
(unranked):Panarthropoda
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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