Liwia

Liwia is a genus of nektaspid, a soft-bodied stem-group chelicerate.[1] It includes the following species, both are known from borehole samples several kilometers in depth from the Zawiszyn Formation in Poland, which has also yielded Peytoia infercambriensis.

  • Liwia plana Lendzion, 1975
  • Liwia convexa Lendzion 1975

Liwia
Temporal range: Early Cambrian 520–516 Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Order: †Nektaspida
Family: †Liwiidae
Genus: †Liwia
Dzik and Lendzion, 1988
Species

See text.

References
  1. Budd, G. E. (1999). "A nektaspid arthropod from the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet fauna, with a description of retrodeformation based on functional morphology". Palaeontology. 42: 99. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00064.


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