The Luolishaniidae or Luolishaniida are a group of Cambrian and

Ordovician The Ordovician ( ) is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era. The Ordovician spans 41.6 million years from the end of the Cambrian Period million years ago (Mya) to the start of the Silurian Period Mya. T ...

lobopodians with anterior 5 or 6 pairs of setiferous lobopods. Most luolishaniids also have posterior lobopods each with a hooked claws, and thorn-shaped sclerites arranged as three or more per trunk segment. The type genus is based on ''

Luolishania ''Luolishania'' is an extinct genus of lobopodian worm and known from the Lower Cambrian Chiungchussu Formation (Maotianshan Shales) of the Chengjiang County, Yunnan Province, China. A monotypic genus, it contains one species ''Luolishania longi ...

longicruris'' Hou and Chen, 1989, from the Chengjiang Lagerstatte, South China. They are presumed to have been benthic suspension or filter feeders. New specimens of the previously enigmatic ''

Facivermis ''Facivermis'' (meaning "torch worm" ) is a genus of sessile lobopodian from the Lower Cambrian Maotianshan shales of China Anatomy ''Facivermis'' was a worm-like creature up to 90 mm long. Its body was divided into three sections. The ante ...

'' show that it was a sessile tube-dweller, and part of this group.

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