Habelia

Habelia is a genus of extinct 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.[1] While previously enigmatic, a 2017 restudy found that it formed a clade (Habeliida) with Sanctacaris, Utahcaris, Wisangocaris and Messorocaris as a stem-group to Chelicerata.[2]

Habelia
Temporal range: Middle Cambrian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
(unranked):
Order:
Habeliida
Family:
Habeliidae
Genus:
Habelia

Walcott, 1912
Species:
H. optata Walcott, 1912
Fossils of Habelida optata

References

  1. Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022.
  2. Aria, Cédric; Caron, Jean-Bernard (December 2017). "Mandibulate convergence in an armoured Cambrian stem chelicerate". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (1): 261. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-1088-7. ISSN 1471-2148. PMC 5738823. PMID 29262772.

Further reading

  • Invertebrate Palaeontology & Evolution by Euan Neilson Kerr Clarkson
  • Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould


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