Odaraia

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Odaraia
Fossil range: Middle Cambrian
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: ?Malacostraca
Order: Canadaspidida
Genus: Odaraia

Odaraia is an extinct genus of crustacean arthropod from the Middle Cambrian. Its fossils have been found in the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada.

[edit] Sources

  • The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals by Simon Conway-Morris
  • The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China: The Flowering of Early Animal Life by Xian-Guang Hou, Richard J. Aldridge, Jan Bergstrom, and David J. Siveter

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