Chancia (animal)

For the commune in France, see Chancia.

Chancia Temporal range: Cambrian
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 United States (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. (Burgess Shale species 4)

↑ Paleobiology Database. "Chancia", accessed March 27, 2011.
↑ 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.

Ptychopariida
Genera	Acrocephalella Angelina Asaphiscus Chancia Conocoryphe Ehmaniella Ejinaspis Elrathia Exigua Meniscopsia Meteoraspis Olenus Palaeolenus Ptychoparia Strenuaeva Triarthrus Westergaardites Yunnanocephalus

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