Leanhoiliia ( Latin Leanchoilia ) - an extinct genus of arthropods from the class Megacheira . They lived in the Cambrian period .
| † Leanhoiliia |
Fossil | 
Reconstruction |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetric |
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| International Scientific Name |
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Leanchoilia
C. Walcott , 1912 |
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- Leanchoilia hanceyi Briggs & Robison 1984
- Leanchoilia illecebrosa Hou, 1987
- Leanchoilia protogonia Simonetta, 1970
- Leanchoilia superlata Walcott, 1912
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Content
This arthropod had four eyes. The body length was about 5 centimeters [1] . The body consisted of eleven segments. In front, leanhoiliia had a pair of limbs resembling tentacles. Sometimes organs were also found inside the bodies found [2] .
Like many other representatives of the Cambrian life, leanhoiliia was discovered in the Burgess shale in the Canadian Rockies by the American paleontologist Charles Walcott in 1912 [1] .
Currently, two types of leanhoilias are distinguished:
- Leanchoilia superlata
- Leanchoilia persephone Simonetta
As for the second species, some scientists believe that the differences between the two species are just an example of sexual dimorphism [3] .
