Luolishaniidae
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| (unranked): | Panarthropoda |
| Phylum: | †"Lobopodia" |
| Family: | †Luolishaniidae |
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Acinocricus | |
The Luolishaniidae or Luolishaniida[2] are a group of lobopodians with setiferous forelimbs known from the Cambrian period.[3] 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. They are presumed to have been filter feeders. New specimens of the previously engimatic Facivermis show that it was a sessile tube-dweller, and part of this group.[4]
References
- ^ Jean‐Bernard Caron; Cédric Aria (2020). "The Collins' monster, a spinous suspension‐feeding lobopodian from the Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia". Palaeontology. Online edition. doi:10.1111/pala.12499.
- ^ Caron & Aria (2020) elevated this group to the rank of order Luolishaniida, while also naming new family Teratopodidae within that order, containing the genera Acinocricus, Collinsium and Collinsovermis. See: Jean‐Bernard Caron; Cédric Aria (2020). "The Collins' monster, a spinous suspension‐feeding lobopodian from the Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia". Palaeontology. Online edition. doi:10.1111/pala.12499.
- ^ Hou, X.; Bergström, J. A. N. (1995). "Cambrian lobopodians-ancestors of extant onychophorans?". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 114: 3–19. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1995.tb00110.x.
- ^ Howard, Richard J.; Hou, Xianguang; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Salge, Tobias; Shi, Xiaomei; Ma, Xiaoya (February 2020). "A Tube-Dwelling Early Cambrian Lobopodian". Current Biology. 30 (8): 1529–1536.e2. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.01.075. PMID 32109391.
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