†Leaia herriana Guthörl 1934 (clam shrimp)
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Branchiopoda - Diplostraca - Leaiidae
Full reference: P. Guthörl. 1934. Die Arthropoden aus dem Carbon und Perm des Saar-Nahe-Pfalz-Gebietes. Abhandlungen der Preußischen Geologischen Landesanstalt Berlin 164:1-219
Belongs to Leaia according to P. Guthörl 1934
Sister taxa: Leaia baentschiana, Leaia buntschiana
Type specimen: Slg. d. Verf. 369.
Ecology: slow-moving nektobenthic suspension feeder-detritivore
Distribution: found only at Hirschbach mine (Carboniferous of Germany)
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