Named By: | Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1912 |
Time Period: | Cambrian Stage 3-Late Silurian |
Location: | Australia, Canada - Burgess Shale, China and USA |
Size: | Around 20 to 45 millimetres long |
Diet: | Uncertain, may have been either a carnivore or a detritivore |
Fossil(s): | Multiple specimens |
Classification: | | Arthropoda | Chelicerata | Nektaspida | Naraoiidae | |
Naraoia is a genus of small to average size (about 2-41/2 cm long) marine arthropods within the family Naraoiidae, that lived from the early Cambrian to the late Silurian period. The species are characterized by a large alimentary system and sideways oriented antennas.