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Urokodia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Thylacocephala

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Species
  
U. aequalis

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Acanthomeridion, Occacaris, Pectocaris, Forfexicaris, Xianguangia

Urokodia aequalis is an extinct genus of arthropod from the early Cambrian. The taxon is only known from the Maotianshan Shales of China, from which it was described by Hou et al. (1989) based on some 15 specimens. It segmentation resembles that of a millipede and it possessed head and tail shields with thorny spikes. It has some similarities to the arthropod Mollisonia that is known from both the Burgess Shale of Canada and the Kaili biota of China.

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Urokodia Wikipedia