Liangshanella

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Liangshanella
Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3–Mid Cambrian
USNM PAL 272083 Liangshanella burgessensis Image 02.jpg
Holotype of L. burgessensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Order:† Bradoriida
Genus:† Liangshanella
Huo, 1956
Type species
†Liangshanella liangshanensis [1]
Huo, 1956
Other species
  • †Liangshanella burgessensisSiveter and Williams, 1997 [2]
  • †Liangshanella qassutitPeel, 2025 [3]

Liangshanella is a genus of Cambrian bradoriid known from the Chengjiang biota and Burgess Shale. 6263 specimens of Liangshanella are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 11.9% of the community. [4]

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  1. ↑ Huo, S. 1956. Brief notes on lower Cambrian Archaeostraca from Shensi and Yunnan. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 4: 425-445.
  2. ↑ Siveter, David J.; Williams, Mark (1997). "Cambrian Bradoriid and Phosphatocopid Arthropods of North America" . Geological Magazine. 136 (1): 83–108. doi:10.1017/S0016756899461771. ISSN   1469-5081.
  3. ↑ Peel, J. S. (2025). "Middle Cambrian (Wuliuan Stage) Small Shelly Fossils from North Greenland (Laurentia)". Bulletin of Geosciences. 100 (1): 1–56.
  4. ↑ Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. Bibcode:2006Palai..21..451C. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR   20173022. S2CID   53646959.


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