Tesnusocarididae
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| Tesnusocarididae Temporal range: | |
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| Tesnusocaris goldichi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Remipedia |
| Order: | †Enantiopoda Birshtein, 1960[2] |
| Family: | †Tesnusocarididae Brooks, 1955[3][4] |
| Type genus | |
| †Tesnusocaris[3] Brooks, 1955[5] | |
| Other genera[5][6] | |
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| Synonyms[4][7] | |
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Tesnusocarididae is an extinct family of remipedes and the sole member of the order Enantiopoda.[3][4][7] It contains two genera, the type genus Tesnusocaris, and Cryptocaris, both known from the Carboniferous,[3][5][6] with Tesnusocaris known from the Lower Pennsylvanian Tesnus Formation and Cryptocaris from the Middle Pennsylvanian Mazon Creek fossil beds.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Remipedia". ucmp.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 8 February 2026.
- ↑ Enantiopoda in the Paleobiology Database
- 1 2 3 4 Tesnusocarididae in the Paleobiology Database
- 1 2 3 "†Tesnusocarididae Brooks, 1955". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 5 February 2026.
- 1 2 3 Tesnusocaris in the Paleobiology Database
- 1 2 Cryptocaris in the Paleobiology Database
- 1 2 "Tesnusocarididae". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2026-02-05.
External links
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