Jianshania

{{Short description|Extinct genus of arthropods}}

{{Taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Cambrian Stage 3}}

| image = Jianshania.png

| image_caption = Part and counterpart of the holotype specimen

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis =

| familia =

| familia_authority =

| genus = {{dagger}}Jianshania

| species = {{dagger}}J. furcatus

| species_authority = Luo et al, 1999

}}

Jianshania is a genus of Cambrian arthropod known from the Chengjiang biota, containing the single species J. furcatus. It was described by Luo et al. in 1999.{{Cite journal |last1=Luo |first1=HL |last2=Hu |first2=SX |last3=Chen |first3=LZ |last4=Zhang |first4=SS |last5=Tao |first5=YH |year=1999 |title=Early Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna From Kunming Region, China. |journal= |language=Chinese |location=Kunming |publisher=Yunnan Science and Technology Press |s2cid=133363305}} In 2020, a specimen originally assigned to the species was found to represent the separate fuxianhuiid taxon Xiaocaris pending revision of the type specimen.{{Cite journal|last1=Liu|first1=Yu|last2=Ortega-Hernández|first2=Javier|last3=Chen|first3=Hong|last4=Mai|first4=Huijuan|last5=Zhai|first5=Dayou|last6=Hou|first6=Xianguang|date=December 2020|title=Computed tomography sheds new light on the affinities of the enigmatic euarthropod Jianshania furcatus from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota|url= |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology|language=en|volume=20|issue=1|pages=62|doi=10.1186/s12862-020-01625-4|issn=1471-2148|pmc=7268425|pmid=32487135 |doi-access=free }}