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Phyllocarid
Phyllocarida is a subclass of crustacean Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapoda, decapods, ostracoda, seed shrimp, branchiopoda, branchiopods, argulidae, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopoda, isopods, barnacles, copepods, ...s, comprising the extant order Leptostraca and the extinct orders Hymenostraca and Archaeostraca. See also *'' Ceratiocaris'' *'' Cinerocaris'' *'' Vladicaris'' References External links Malacostraca Arthropod subclasses Paleozoic crustaceans Mesozoic crustaceans Cenozoic crustaceans Extant Cambrian first appearances Taxa described in 1879 Taxa named by Alpheus Spring Packard {{Malacostraca-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malacostraca
Malacostraca (from New Latin; ) is the largest of the six classes of crustaceans, containing about 40,000 living species, divided among 16 orders. Its members, the malacostracans, display a great diversity of body forms and include crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, prawns, woodlice, amphipods, mantis shrimp, tongue-eating lice and many other less familiar animals. They are abundant in all marine environments and have colonised freshwater and terrestrial habitats. They are segmented animals, united by a common body plan comprising 20 body segments (rarely 21), and divided into a head, thorax, and abdomen. Etymology The name Malacostraca was coined by a French zoologist Pierre André Latreille in 1802. He was curator of the arthropod collection at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. The name comes from the Greek roots (', meaning "soft") and (', meaning "shell"). The name is misleading, since the shell is soft only immediately after moulting, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 is the only extant order in the subclass Phyllocarida. They are believed to represent the most primitive members of their class, the Malacostraca, and first appear in the fossil record during the Cambrian period. Description Leptostracans are usually small, typically long, crustaceans distinguished from all other members of their class in having seven abdominal segments, instead of six. Their head has stalked compound eyes, two pairs of antennae (one biramous, one uniramous), and a pair of mandibles but no maxillipeds. The carapace is large and comprises two valves which cover the head and the thorax, including most of the thoracic appendages, and serves as a brood pouch for the developing embryos. The first six abdominal segments be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 longer abdominal somites and an elongated pretelson somite. Their carapace is slightly oval shaped; they have many ridges parallel to the ventral margin and possess a horn at the anterior end. They are well known from the Silurian Eramosa formation of Ontario, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by to .... The following species are included: *''Ceratiocaris bohemica'' Barrande, 1872 *''Ceratiocaris harpago'' Poschmann, Bergmann & Kühl, 2018 *''Ceratiocaris macroura'' Collette & Rudkin, 2010 *''Ceratiocaris monroei'' Salter ''in'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Lagerstätte in palaeontology, is a fossil-rich deposit ('' Konservat-Lagerstätte'') in Powys and Herefordshire at the Engla ... in Herefordshire, England. It contains the species ''Cinerocaris magnifica''. References Prehistoric Malacostraca Prehistoric crustacean genera Silurian crustaceans Silurian animals of Europe {{paleo-crustacean-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 can be treated as a subphylum under the clade Mandibulata. It is now well accepted that the hexapods emerged deep in the Crustacean group, with the completed group referred to as Pancrustacea. Some crustaceans ( Remipedia, Cephalocarida, Branchiopoda) are more closely related to insects and the other hexapods than they are to certain other crustaceans. The 67,000 described species range in size from '' Stygotantulus stocki'' at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span of up to and a mass of . Like other arthropods, crustaceans have an exoskeleton, which they moult to grow. They are distinguished from other groups of arthropods, such as insects, myriapods and chelicerates, by the possession of biramous (two-parted) limbs, and by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 vermicauda''. Differences between ''Hymenocaris'' and ''Canadaspis'' have been used to justify erecting a separate family, Hymenocarididae and order, Hymenostraca for ''Hymenocaris'', although it is also sometimes placed in the family Canadaspididae and the order Canadaspidida Hymenocarina is an order of extinct arthropods known from the Cambrian. They possess bivalved carapaces, typically with exposed posteriors. Members of the group are morphologically diverse and had a variety of ecologies, including as filter feede .... References Prehistoric Malacostraca Cambrian arthropods Paleozoic crustaceans Prehistoric crustacean genera Burgess Shale fossils Cambrian genus extinctions {{paleo-crustacean-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 it does indeed belong in the crown group of that subphylum, it would be the earliest known representative of the group. Its position within the Crustacea is unclear – it has been allied with the Phyllocarida and the Branchiopoda. The organism has a segmented trunk and an elongate carapace A carapace is a dorsal (upper) section of the exoskeleton or shell in a number of animal groups, including arthropods, such as crustaceans and arachnids, as well as vertebrates, such as turtles and tortoises. In turtles and tortoises, the unde ... – characters which have led to suggestions that it should be allied to the pectocaridids. References Prehistoric crustaceans Cambrian arthropods Arthropod enigmatic taxa Cambrian animals of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paleozoic Crustaceans
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon. The name ''Paleozoic'' ( ;) was coined by the British geologist Adam Sedgwick in 1838 by combining the Greek words ''palaiós'' (, "old") and ''zōḗ'' (), "life", meaning "ancient life" ). It is the longest of the Phanerozoic eras, lasting from , and is subdivided into six geologic periods (from oldest to youngest): # Cambrian # Ordovician # Silurian # Devonian # Carboniferous # Permian The Paleozoic comes after the Neoproterozoic Era of the Proterozoic Eon and is followed by the Mesozoic Era. The Paleozoic was a time of dramatic geological, climatic, and evolutionary change. The Cambrian witnessed the most rapid and widespread diversification of life in Earth's history, known as the Cambrian explosion, in which most modern phyla first appeared. Arthropods, molluscs, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and synapsids all evolved during the Paleozoic. Life began in the ocean but event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extant Cambrian First Appearances
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Cenozoic Crustaceans
The Cenozoic ( ; ) is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66million years of Earth's history. It is characterised by the dominance of mammals, birds and flowering plants, a cooling and drying climate, and the current configuration of continents. It is the latest of three geological eras since complex life evolved, preceded by the Mesozoic and Paleozoic. It started with the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, when many species, including the non-avian dinosaurs, became extinct in an event attributed by most experts to the impact of a large asteroid or other celestial body, the Chicxulub impactor. The Cenozoic is also known as the Age of Mammals because the terrestrial animals that dominated both hemispheres were mammalsthe eutherians (placentals) in the northern hemisphere and the metatherians (marsupials, now mainly restricted to Australia) in the southern hemisphere. The extinction of many groups allowed mammals and birds to greatly diversify so that lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesozoic Crustaceans
The Mesozoic Era ( ), also called the Age of Reptiles, the Age of Conifers, and colloquially as the Age of the Dinosaurs is the second-to-last era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about , comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods. It is characterized by the dominance of archosaurian reptiles, like the dinosaurs; an abundance of conifers and ferns; a hot greenhouse climate; and the tectonic break-up of Pangaea. The Mesozoic is the middle of the three eras since complex life evolved: the Paleozoic, the Mesozoic, and the Cenozoic. The era began in the wake of the Permian–Triassic extinction event, the largest well-documented mass extinction in Earth's history, and ended with the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, another mass extinction whose victims included the non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, mosasaurs, and plesiosaurs. The Mesozoic was a time of significant tectonic, climatic, and evolutionary activity. The era witnessed the gradual riftin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nebalia Bipes
''Nebalia bipes'' is a species of leptostracan crustacean, and the first species in the order to have been described (in 1780, under the name ''Cancer bipes''). It lives in coastal waters at depths of , under stones or among decaying organic matter where it is common and sometimes abundant.John Barrett and C M Young, Collins Pocket Guide to the Sea Shore (1958) p.93 Its predators include the fish ''Merlangius merlangus'' (whiting). Description ''N. bipes'' is orange or yellowish green and about one centimetre long. It has a loosely attached thin shell composed of two halves joined longitudinally which protect most of the segments. The upper pair of antennae are stumpy and branched while the lower pair are much longer, especially in the male where they can be as long as the body. The eyes are red and on stalks and there is a rostral spine projecting forward between them. There are eight pairs of appendages concealed under the shell and four longer pairs of abdominal appendages h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
