Cryptocaris
| Cryptocaris Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Remipedia |
| Order: | †Enantiopoda |
| Family: | †Tesnusocarididae |
| Genus: | †Cryptocaris Schram, 1974 |
| Species: | †C. hootchi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Cryptocaris hootchi Schram, 1974 | |
Cryptocaris is an extinct, monospecific genus of remipedes in the family Tesnusocarididae.[2] It lived in what are now the Mazon Creek fossil beds in Illinois during the Middle Pennsylvanian.[1]
Classification
[edit]Cryptocaris was described by Frederick Schram in 1974, and was initially placed in the suborder Monokonophora.[3] It was then reassigned to the extinct suborder Anthracocaridomorpha and placed in its own family, Cryptocarididae, in 1986.[2]
Then, in 1991, it and Tesnusocaris were recognized as remipedes. The family Tesnusocarididae was erected to house both genera, with Tesnusocaris becoming the family's type genus, and Cryptocarididae a synonym of the family.[2][4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Koenemann, Stefan; Schram, Frederick R.; Hönemann, Mario; Iliffe, Thomas M. (12 April 2007). "Phylogenetic analysis of Remipedia (Crustacea)". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 7 (1). Elsevier BV: 33–51. Bibcode:2007ODivE...7...33K. doi:10.1016/j.ode.2006.07.001. ISSN 1439-6092. S2CID 84550810.
- 1 2 3 4 Cryptocaris in the Paleobiology Database
- ↑ Schram, Frederick R. (1974). "Paleozoic Peracarida of North America". Fieldiana: Geology. 33 (6). Field Museum of Natural History: 95–124. doi:10.5962/BHL.TITLE.5322. OCLC 1954721. S2CID 132533486.
- ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 8 February 2026.
External links
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