Chancia (genus)

For the commune in France, see Chancia.

Chancia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Ptychopariida
Family: Alokistocaridae
Genus: Chancia
Species
  • C. rasettii (type) Walcott, 1924
  • C. ebdome (unrecognized)
  • C. tuberculata (unrecognized)

Chancia is an extinct genus of Cambrian trilobite. It was a "fast-moving epifaunal detritivore" from Canada (British Columbia, specifically Burgess Shale, and Newfoundland) and the USA (Idaho, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Vermont).[1] Chancia was a particle feeder. Its major characteristics are a normal glabella but an enlarged cephalon due to a pre-glabellar field in front of the glabella, as well as developed eye ridges, medium-sized genal spines, and an extremely small pygidium.[2]

External links

"Chancia palliseri". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011.

References

  1. ↑ Paleobiology Database. "Chancia", accessed March 27, 2011.
  2. ↑ Coppold, Murray and Wayne Powell (2006). A Geoscience Guide to the Burgess Shale, p.57. The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation, Field, British Columbia. ISBN 0-9780132-0-4.