Yohoia
Extinct genus of arthropods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yohoia is an extinct genus of megacheiran arthropod from the Cambrian period that has been found as fossils in the Burgess Shale formation of British Columbia, Canada. The type species, Yohoia tenuis, was described in 1912 by Walcott, who considered it an anostracan crustacean. 711 specimens of Yohoia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 1.35% of the community.[2] In 2015, Conway Morris et al. reported another species, Y. utahana, from the Marjum Formation, Utah.[1]
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Life restoration of Y. tenuis | |
The suggested movement of the great appendage of Y. tenuis | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | †Megacheira |
Clade: | †Cheiromorpha |
Order: | †Yohoiida Simonetta & Delle Cave, 1975 |
Family: | †Yohoiidae Henriksen, 1928 |
Genus: | †Yohoia Walcott, 1912 |
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