Tesnusocaris
| † Tesnusocaris goldichi Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Remipedia |
| Order: | † |
| Family: | † |
| Genus: | †Tesnusocaris Brooks, 1955 |
| Species: | †T. goldichi
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| †Tesnusocaris goldichi Brooks, 1955 [1]
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Tesnusocaris goldichi is an extinct species of remipedian crustacean that lived in the Pennsylvanian period, the one of the two representatives of the extinct remipedian Order Enantiopoda.[2] Its fossil is from the Lower Pennsylvanian (Paleozoic, Carboniferous) , Texas.[1] The other known enantiopod remipedian is hootchi of the Mazon Creek fauna.
References[]
- ^ a b H. K. Brooks (1955). "A crustacean from the Tesnus formation (Pennsylvanian) of Texas". Journal of Paleontology. 29 (5): 852–856. JSTOR 1300405.
- ^ 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. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...619627N. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019627. PMC 3098257. PMID 21625553.
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