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Tesnusocaris

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.

The type and only species is Tesnusocaris goldichi.