Biology:Douglasocaris

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Short description: Genus of small freshwater animals

Douglasocaris
Douglasocaris line.jpg
Holotype of Douglasocaris collinsi, from the Douglas Lake Member of Lenoir Limestone, at Douglas Dam, Tennessee[1] 1956.
Scientific classification
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Douglasocaris

Caster & Brooks 1956<[1]
Type species
Douglasocaris collinsi
Caster & Brooks 1956

Douglasocaris is a genus of bivalved arthropod from the Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian, 460 million years old) Douglas Lake Member of the Lenoir Limestone from Douglas Dam Tennessee.[2]

Type specimen of Douglasocaris collinsi
Counterpart of type specimen of Douglasocaris collinsi'

Description

Douglasocaris has alternatively been considered a phyllocarid or a notostracan.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Caster, K.E., and Brooks, H.K. (1956). "New fossils from the Canadian-Chazyan (Ordovician) hiatus in Tennessee". Bulletins of American Paleontology 36: 157–199. 
  2. Retallack, G.J. (2019). "Ordovician land plants and fungi from Douglas Dam, Tennessee". The Palaeobotanist 68: 1–33. 
  3. Briggs, Derek E.G.; Liu, Huaibao P.; McKay, Robert M.; Witzke, Brian J. (November 2015). "Bivalved arthropods from the Middle Ordovician Winneshiek Lagerstätte, Iowa, USA" (in en). Journal of Paleontology 89 (6): 991–1006. doi:10.1017/jpa.2015.76. ISSN 0022-3360. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0022336015000761/type/journal_article. 

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