Carnarvonia venosa Temporal range: | |
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Holotype specimen | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Genus: | † Carnarvonia Walcott, 1912 |
Species: | †C. venosa |
Binomial name | |
†Carnarvonia venosa Walcott, 1912 | |
Carnarvonia is a genus of arthropods of uncertain affinities, known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. It is only known from a single specimen, which preserves a dorsally flattened bivalved carapace, which bears the imprints of veins, and is superficially similar in shape to those of Phyllocarida and Canadaspis , the latter of which also occurs in the Burgess Shale. [1]