Kuamaia
| Kuamaia Temporal range: | |
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| Fossil of Kuamaia lata including under normal light and tomographic view, with accompanying drawing | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | †Trilobitomorpha |
| Subclass: | †Conciliterga |
| Family: | †Helmetiidae |
| Genus: | †Kuamaia Hou 1987 |
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Kuamaia is an extinct genus of marine Cambrian arthropod belonging to Conciliterga, which is part of the broader group Artiopoda (which contains trilobites and their close relatives). Fossils of the type species K. lata were discovered in the Chengjiang biota. The other species in the genus, K. muricata has also been identified there, but neither species has been found elsewhere.