Houia

Houia is a genus of dekatriatan, a group of extinct aquatic arthropods. Fossils of the single and type species, H. yueya, have been discovered in deposits of the Early Devonian period (Lochkovian epoch) in Yunnan, China. The name of the genus is derived from the Chinese character 鲎 (hòu), meaning "horseshoe crab". The species name yueya comes from the Chinese characters 月 (yuè, meaning "Moon") and 牙 (yá, meaning "crescent"), referring to the crescentic shape of its carapace (the dorsal plate of the head).

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Category:Dekatriata
Category:Early Devonian first appearances
Category:Devonian arthropods
Category:Fossils of China
Category:Fossil taxa described in 2015