Tamisiocaris
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Dinocaridida |
| Order: | †Radiodonta |
| Genus: | †Tamisiocaris Daley & Peel, 2010 |
| Species: | †T. borealis
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| †Tamisiocaris borealis Daley & Peel, 2010
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Tamisiocaris (from Latin tamisium, sieve, and Greek karis, crab, shrimp)[1] is a radiodont genus initially only known from frontal appendages from the Buen Formation in Sirius Passet. Further specimens revealed that the frontal appendages were segmented and bore densely-packed auxiliary spines, which were adapted to suspension feeding in a manner analogous to modern baleen whales.[2]
See also[]
- Tamisiocarididae – Clade of extinct arthropods
References[]
- ^ Allison C. Daley & John S. Peel (2010). "A possible anomalocaridid from the Cambrian Sirius Passet lagerstätte, North Greenland". Journal of Paleontology. 84 (2): 352–355. doi:10.1666/09-136R1.1.
- ^ Jakob Vinther; Martin Stein; Nicholas R. Longrich & David A. T. Harper (2014). "A suspension-feeding anomalocarid from the Early Cambrian" (PDF). Nature. 507 (7493): 496–499. doi:10.1038/nature13010. PMID 24670770.
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| Anomalocarida |
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Categories:
- Anomalocaridids
- Prehistoric arthropod genera
- Cambrian arthropods
- Cambrian Greenland
- Fossils of Greenland
- Sirius Passet fossils
- Buen Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 2010