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Skania

Skania
Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3–Middle Cambrian
Skania fragilis.jpg
Illustration of Skania fragilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: incertae sedis
Genus: Skania
Species
  • S. fragilis Walcott, 1931
  • S. sundbergi

Skania is a Middle Cambrian fossil arthropod that is closely related to the Early Cambrian Primicaris larvaformis from the Chengjiang Biota, China. It bears a superficial resemblance to the Ediacaran organism Parvancorina. A single specimens of Skania are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise < 0.01% of the community.



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