Leanchoiliidacea

From Palaeos

<==Leanchoiliidacea
   |--Alalcomenaeidea
   |    |--Alalcomenaeus Simonetta 1970 [Alalcomenaeida]
   |    `--Actaeus Simonetta 1970 [Actaeida]
   `--+--Sarotrocercus
      `--+--Leanchoiliida [Leanchoiliidea]
         |    |--Acanthomeridion Hou, Chen & Lu 1989
         |    `--Leanchoilia Walcott 1912
         |         `--L. illecebrosa
         `--Habeliida
              |--Habelia Walcott 1912
              |--Economocaris
              `--Thelxiope

* Type species of genus indicated

References

Bousfield, E. L. 1995. A contribution to the natural classification of Lower and Middle Cambrian arthropods: Food-gathering and feeding mechanisms. Amphipacifica 2: 3-34.

Budd, G. E. 2002. A palaeontological solution to the arthropod head problem. Nature 417: 271-275.

Conway Morris, S. 1998. The Crucible of Creation. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

Sutton, M. D., D. E. G. Briggs, D. J. Siveter, D. J. Siveter & P. J. Orr. 2002. The arthropod Offacolus kingi (Chelicerata) from the Silurian of Herefordshire, England: Computer based morphological reconstructions and phylogenetic affinities. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B – Biological Sciences 269: 1195-1203.

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