Biology:Waptiidae

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Short description: Extinct family of crustaceans

Waptiidae
Temporal range:
Early Cambrian to Middle Cambrian
Waptia.jpg
Waptia fieldensis from the Burgess Shale Formation
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Mandibulata
Order: Hymenocarina
Størmer, 1944
Family: Waptiidae
Walcott, 1912
Type genus
Waptia
Walcott, 1912
Genera

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Waptiidae is an extinct family of shrimp-like stem group crustaceans that lived during the Early to Middle Cambrian (about 520 to 505 million years ago).[1] It is the only family classified under the order Waptiida which is tentatively included in the clade Crustaceomorpha.[2][3]

Waptiidae includes the following genera and species:[3][4]

  • Chuandianella ovata (Li, 1975)
  • Pauloterminus spinodorsalis Taylor, 2002
  • Plenocaris plena Hou & Bergström, 1997
  • Waptia fieldensis Walcott, 1912

See also

References

  1. "Waptiidae". Paleobiology Database. http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl. Retrieved February 16, 2012. 
  2. J. John Sepkoski Jr. (1992). "Stratigraphic Ranges of Vendian and Cambrian Animal Families". in J. William Schoff & Cornelius Klein. The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study. Cambridge University Press. p. 1177. ISBN 978-0-521-36615-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=jMPfQoFNr-IC&q=Waptiidae&pg=PA1177. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Mikko Haaramo (October 4, 2007). "Crustaceomorpha – crustaceans and related arthropods". Mikko's Phylogeny Archive. http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/protostoma/arthropoda/crustacea/crustaceomorpha.html. Retrieved January 14, 2012. 
  4. Rod S. Taylor (2002). "A new bivalved arthropod from the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet fauna, North Greenland". Palaeontology (The Palaeontological Association) 45 (Part 1): 97–123. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00229. 

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