Jilinicaris
Jilinicaris chinensis Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Crustacea |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Infraorder: | Stenopodidea |
Family: | Spongicolidae |
Genus: | Jilinicaris Schram, Shen, Vonk & Taylor, 2000 |
Species: | J. chinensis |
Binomial name | |
Jilinicaris chinensis Schram, Shen, Vonk & Taylor, 2000 | |
Jilinicaris is an extinct genus of crustacean in the order Decapoda,[1] and is the earliest fossil assigned to the Stenopodidea, having been found in rocks of Late Cretaceous age.[2]
References
- ↑ Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.
- ↑ Frederick R. Shram; Shen Yanbin; Ronald Vonk; Rodney S. Taylor (2000). "The first fossil stenopodidean". Crustaceana. 73 (2): 235–242. doi:10.1163/156854000504183.
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