''Liangshanella'' is a genus of
Cambrian
The Cambrian Period ( ; sometimes symbolized C with bar, Ꞓ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 53.4 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran Period 538.8 million ...
bradoriid known from the
Chengjiang biota
The Maotianshan Shales are a series of Early Cambrian deposits in the Chiungchussu Formation, famous for their '' Konservat Lagerstätten'', deposits known for the exceptional preservation of fossilized organisms or traces. The Maotianshan Shales ...
and
Burgess Shale. 6263 specimens of ''Liangshanella'' are known from the Greater
Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 11.9% of the community.
See also
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Cambrian explosion
The Cambrian explosion, Cambrian radiation, Cambrian diversification, or the Biological Big Bang refers to an interval of time approximately in the Cambrian Period when practically all major animal phyla started appearing in the fossil recor ...
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List of Chengjiang Biota species by phylum
References
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Burgess Shale fossils
Cambrian arthropods
Maotianshan shales fossils
Cambrian genus extinctions
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