Phyllocarida is a subclass of
crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group ...
s, comprising the extant order
Leptostraca
Leptostraca (from the Greek words for ''thin'' and ''shell'') is an order of small, marine crustaceans. Its members, including the well-studied ''Nebalia'', occur throughout the world's oceans and are usually considered to be filter-feeders. It ...
and the extinct orders
Hymenostraca
''Hymenocaris'' is a genus of Cambrian crustaceans.
Taxonomy
Some species originally assigned to ''Hymenocaris'' were later transferred to ''Canadaspis'', such as '' Canadaspis perfecta'' (''Hymenocaris perfecta''), leaving only ''Hymenocaris v ...
and
Archaeostraca.
See also
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Ceratiocaris
''Ceratiocaris'' is a genus of paleozoic phyllocarid crustaceans whose fossils are found in marine strata from the Upper Ordovician until the genus' extinction during the Silurian. They are typified by eight short thoracic segments, seven longe ...
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Cinerocaris
''Cinerocaris'' is an extinct genus of phyllocarid crustaceans known from the Silurian aged Coalbrookdale Formation
Coalbrookdale Formation, earlier known as Wenlock Shale or Wenlock Shale Formation and also referred to as Herefordshire Lagers ...
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Vladicaris
''Vladicaris'' is an arthropod known from the Lower Cambrian Paseky Shale member, Czech Republic, where it occurs alongside other arthropods, namely '' Kodymirus vagans'' and ''Kockurus grandis''. It has been attributed to the Crustacea, and if i ...
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Malacostraca
Arthropod subclasses
Paleozoic crustaceans
Mesozoic crustaceans
Cenozoic crustaceans
Extant Cambrian first appearances
Taxa described in 1879
Taxa named by Alpheus Spring Packard
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