Allonnia
Extinct genus of Cambrian animals
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Allonnia is a genus of coeloscleritophoran known as complete scleritomes from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. It is also a constituent of the small shelly fauna.[4]
| Allonnia Temporal range: | |
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| Fossil of Allonnia phrixothrix in Yuxi Museum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Order: | †Chancelloriida |
| Family: | †Chancelloriidae |
| Genus: | †Allonnia Doré and Reid, 1965 |
| Type species | |
| Allonnia tripodophora Doré and Reid, 1965 | |
| Species | |
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Its earliest occurrence in Yunnan dates to the Upper Meishucunian (~ Tommotian / Cambrian Stage 2) [5]