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Tesnusocaris

Tesnusocaris is an extinct, monospecificgenus of remipediancrustaceans that lived in the Pennsylvanian period, one of the two representatives of the extinct remipedian orderEnantiopoda. It is known from a fossil discovered in the Lower Pennsylvanian (Paleozoic, Carboniferous) Tesnus Formation of Texas. The other known enantiopod remipedian is Cryptocaris hootchi of the Mazon Creek fauna.