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Carnarvonia venosa Temporal range: Burgess Shale PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Genus:	†Carnarvonia Walcott, 1912
Species:	†C. venosa
Binomial name
†Carnarvonia venosa Walcott, 1912

Carnarvonia is a genus of arthropods of uncertain affinities, known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. It is only known from a single specimen, which preserves a dorsally flattened bivalved carapace, which bears the imprints of veins, and is superficially similar in shape to those of Phyllocarida and Canadaspis, the latter of which also occurs in the Burgess Shale.

References

1. Jean Vannier, Mark Williams & David J. Siveter (1997). "The Cambrian origin of the circulatory system of crustaceans". Lethaia. 30 (3): 169–184. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1997.tb00458.x.

External links

• Carnarvonia venosa". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011. (Burgess Shale species 35)

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