Halwaxiida

Halwaxiida
Temporal range:
Halkieria sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Superphylum:
(unranked):
Halwaxiida
Families

Halwaxiida or halwaxiids is a proposed clade equivalent to the older orders Sachitida He 1980 and Thambetolepidea Jell 1981, loosely uniting scale-bearing Cambrian animals, which may lie in the stem group to molluscs or lophotrochozoa. Some palaeontologists question the validity of the Halwaxiida clade.