Biology:Tesnusocaris

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Short description: Extinct genus of crustaceans

Tesnusocaris goldichi
Temporal range: Lower Pennsylvanian
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Tesnusocaris goldichi
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Remipedia
Order: Enantiopoda
Family: Tesnusocarididae
Genus: Tesnusocaris
Brooks, 1955
Species:
T. goldichi
Binomial name
Tesnusocaris goldichi
Brooks, 1955 [1]

Tesnusocaris goldichi is an extinct species of remipedian[2] crustacean that lived in the Pennsylvanian period, the one of the two representatives of the extinct remipedian order Enantiopoda.[3] Its fossil is from the Lower Pennsylvanian (Paleozoic, Carboniferous) Tesnus formation, Texas .[1] The other known enantiopod remipedian is Cryptocaris hootchi of the Mazon Creek fauna.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 H. K. Brooks (1955). "A crustacean from the Tesnus formation (Pennsylvanian) of Texas". Journal of Paleontology 29 (5): 852–856. 
  2. Neiber, Marco T., et al. "Global biodiversity and phylogenetic evaluation of Remipedia (Crustacea)." PLoS One 6.5 (2011): e19627.
  3. Marco T. Neiber; Tamara R. Hartke; Torben Stemme; Alexandra Bergmann; Jes Rust; Thomas M. Iliffe; Stefan Koenemann (2011). "Global biodiversity and phylogenetic evaluation of Remipedia (Crustacea)". PLoS One 6 (5): e19627. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019627. PMID 21625553. Bibcode2011PLoSO...619627N. 

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