Houia
Houia is a genus of dekatriatan, a clade of chelicerate arthropods. Fossils of the single and type species, H. yueya, have been discovered in deposits of the Early Devonian period (Lochkovian epoch) in Yunnan, China. The name of the genus is derived from the Chinese character 鲎 (hòu), meaning "horseshoe crab".[1] The species name yueya comes from the Chinese characters 月 (yuè, meaning "Moon") and 牙 (yá, meaning "crescent"), referring to the crescentic shape of its carapace (the dorsal plate of the head).[2]
| Houia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Clade: | Planaterga |
| Clade: | Dekatriata |
| Genus: | †Houia Selden, Lamsdell & Qi, 2015 |
| Type species | |
| †Houia yueya Lamsdell, Xue & Selden, 2013 | |
References
- Selden, Paul A.; Lamsdell, James C.; Qi, Liu (2015). "An unusual euchelicerate linking horseshoe crabs and eurypterids, from the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of Yunnan, China". Zoologica Scripta. 44 (6): 645–652. doi:10.1111/zsc.12124.
- Lamsdell, James C.; Xue, Jinzhuang; Selden, Paul A. (2013). "A horseshoe crab (Arthropoda: Chelicerata: Xiphosura) from the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of Yunnan, China". Geological Magazine. 150 (2): 367–370. doi:10.1017/S0016756812000891. hdl:1808/14491.
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