Liwia

Liwia; Temporal range: Early Cambrian 520–516 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Order:	†Nektaspida
Family:	†Liwiidae
Genus:	†Liwia; Dzik and Lendzion, 1988
Species
	See text.

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 in Poland, which has also yielded Peytoia infercambriensis.

Liwia plana Lendzion, 1975
Liwia convexa Lendzion 1975

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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[Budd1996-1] 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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