Yohoia

Yohoia
Temporal range:
Life restoration of Y. tenuis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Megacheira
Clade: Cheiromorpha
Order: Yohoiida
Simonetta & Delle Cave, 1975
Family: Yohoiidae
Henriksen, 1928
Genus: Yohoia
Walcott, 1912
Species
  • Y. tenuis Walcott, 1912
  • Y. utahana Conway Morris et al., 2015

Yohoia is an extinct genus of fossil megacheiran arthropod from the Cambrian period. The type species, Yohoia tenuis, has been found in the Burgess Shale formation of British Columbia. 711 specimens of Yohoia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 1.35% of the community. In 2015, Conway Morris et al. reported another species, Y. utahana, from the Marjum Formation, Utah.