Megacheira

Megacheira
Occacaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Superclass:	Arachnomorpha
Class:	†Megacheira Hou and Bergstrom, 1997

Megacheira ("Great Hands") is an extinct class of predatory euarthropods that possessed a pair of short enlarged appendages^[1] (the source of the class' name). They were found in marine environments throughout the world from the lower to middle Cambrian, and were important components of several faunas, including the Burgess and Maotianshan Shales lagerstattens. Genera referred to the class include Leanchoilia, Alalcomenaeus and Yohoia, Fortiforceps and Jianfengia.

External links

1. ^ Stein, M. (2010). "A new arthropod from the Early Cambrian of North Greenland, with a 'great appendage'-like antennula". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158 (3): 477–500. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00562.x.  edit

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