Pectocaris

Pectocaris
Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca (?)
Order: †Canadaspidida
Family: †Odaraiidae
Simonetta & Delle Cave, 1975
Genus: Pectocaris
Species: P. spatiosa
Binomial name
Pectocaris spatiosa
Hou 1999
Synonyms

Odaraia? eurypetala Hou and Sun, 1988[1]

Pectocaris spatiosa is a Cambrian arthropod from the Maotianshan Shale similar in form to the Burgess Shale crustaceomorph Odaraia.

See also

References

  1. ↑ XIAN-GUANG HOU, JAN BERGSTRÖM and GUANG-HUI XU (July 2004). "THE LOWER CAMBRIAN CRUSTACEAN PECTOCARIS FROM THE CHENGJIANG BIOTA, YUNNAN, CHINA". Journal of Paleontology. 78 (4): 700–708. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2004).


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