Waptiidae
| Waptiidae Temporal range:
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| Waptia fieldensis from the Burgess Shale Formation | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Crustaceomorpha |
| Order: | †Waptiida Størmer, 1944 |
| Family: | †Waptiidae Walcott, 1912 |
| Type genus | |
| Waptia Walcott, 1912
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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 & , 1991
- Chuandianella ovata (Li, 1975)
- Pauloterminus , 2002 (?)
- Pauloterminus spinodorsalis Taylor, 2002
- Plenocaris Whittington 1974 (?)
- Plenocaris plena Hou & Bergström, 1997
- Waptia Walcott, 1912
- Waptia fieldensis Walcott, 1912
See also[]
- Burgess Shale
- Maotianshan Shale
- Sirius Passet
References[]
- ^ "Waptiidae". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved February 16, 2012.
- ^ J. John Sepkoski Jr. (1992). "Stratigraphic Ranges of Vendian and Cambrian Animal Families". In J. William Schoff & Cornelius Klein (ed.). The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study. Cambridge University Press. p. 1177. ISBN 978-0-521-36615-1.
- ^ a b Mikko Haaramo (October 4, 2007). "Crustaceomorpha – crustaceans and related arthropods". Mikko's Phylogeny Archive. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
- ^ 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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