Pectocaris
| Pectocaris Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
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| Subphylum: | Crustacea
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| Class: | Malacostraca (?)
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| Order: | †Canadaspidida
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| Family: | †Odaraiidae Simonetta & Delle Cave, 1975
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| Genus: | Pectocaris
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| Species: | P. spatiosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Pectocaris spatiosa Hou 1999
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Pectocaris spatiosa is a Cambrian arthropod from the Maotianshan Shale similar in form to the Burgess Shale crustaceomorph Odaraia.
See also[]
- Arthropod
- Cambrian explosion
- Chengjiang biota
References[]
- ^ XIAN-GUANG HOU, JAN BERGSTRÖM and GUANG-HUI XU (July 2004). "THE LOWER CAMBRIAN CRUSTACEAN PECTOCARIS FROM THE CHENGJIANG BIOTA, YUNNAN, CHINA". Journal of Paleontology. 78 (4): 700–708. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2004)078<0700:tlccpf>2.0.co;2.
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