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 | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Order: | †Nektaspida |
| Family: | †Liwiidae |
| Genus: | †Liwia Dzik and Lendzion, 1988 |
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References
- 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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