''Habelia'' is a
genus of
extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
arthropod from the
Middle Cambrian. Its
fossils have been found in the
Burgess Shale in
British Columbia,
Canada. Fifty-four specimens of ''Habelia'' are known from the Greater
Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.1% of the community.
While previously enigmatic, a 2017 redescription found that it formed a clade (
Habeliida) with ''
Sanctacaris,
Utahcaris,
Wisangocaris'' and ''
Messorocaris'' as a
stem-group to
Chelicerata. ''Habelia'' is thought to have been
durophagous, feeding on hard shelled organisms.
References
Further reading
* ''Invertebrate Palaeontology & Evolution'' by Euan Neilson Kerr Clarkson
* ''Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History'' by Stephen Jay Gould
External links
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''Habelia''in the
Paleobiology Database
The Paleobiology Database is an online resource for information on the distribution and classification of fossil animals, plants, and microorganisms.
History
The Paleobiology Database (PBDB) originated in the NCEAS-funded Phanerozoic Marine Paleo ...
Prehistoric arthropod genera
Burgess Shale fossils
Cambrian arthropods
Cambrian arthropods of North America
Cambrian genus extinctions
Fossil taxa described in 1912
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