Chancia (trilobite)

{{Short description|Genus of trilobites}}

For the commune in France, see Chancia.

{{Italic title}}

{{Taxobox

| name = Chancia

| image =

| image_caption =

| fossil_range = Cambrian

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Trilobita

| ordo = Ptychopariida

| familia = Alokistocaridae

| genus = Chancia

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• C. rasettii (type) Walcott, 1924
• C. ebdome (unrecognized)
• C. tuberculata (unrecognized)

}}

Chancia is an extinct genus of Cambrian trilobite. It was a "fast-moving epifaunal detritivore" from Canada (British Columbia, specifically Burgess Shale, and Newfoundland) and the United States (Idaho, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Vermont).Paleobiology Database. [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=20399 "Chancia", accessed March 27, 2011.] Chancia was a particle feeder. Its major characteristics are a normal glabella but an enlarged cephalon due to a pre-glabellar field in front of the glabella, as well as developed eye ridges, medium-sized genal spines, and an extremely small pygidium.Coppold, Murray and Wayne Powell (2006). A Geoscience Guide to the Burgess Shale, p.57. The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation, Field, British Columbia. {{ISBN|0-9780132-0-4}}.