Leanchoilia

Taxobox
name = "Leanchoilia"

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image2_caption = Above: Fossil of a Leanchoilia superlata on display at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
Below: Reconstruction.
fossil_range =Mid Cambrian
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
unranked_classis = Arachnomorpha
ordo = Leanchoilida
familia = Leanchoiliidae
genus = "Leanchoilia"
genus_authority = Walcott
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision ="Leanchoilia superlata" (type) "Leanchoilia persephone" Simonetta (but see text)

"Leanchoilia" is a fossil arachnomorph arthropod from the Cambrian period. It was 5cm long and was probably blindVerify source|date=July 2007, finding its way about with long, whip-like feelers mounted on frontal arm-like appendages.

"Leancholia" is found in the Burgess Shale in Canada, as well as other shale deposits in the area. [http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/shale/pleancho.htm]

TwoVerify source|date=July 2007 species are tentatively accepted today: the type species "L. superlata" and the recently-revalidated "L. persephone". They may however be examples of sexual dimorphism.

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