Aeschronectida

Aeschronectida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Subclass:	Hoplocarida
Order:	Aeschronectida Schram, 1969
Families & genera
Aenigmacarididae Aenigmacaris Joanellia Aratidecthidae Aratidecthes Crangopsis Kallidecthidae Kallidecthes

Aeschronectida is an extinct order of mantis shrimp-like crustaceans which lived in the Mississippian subperiod in what is now Montana.^[1]

References

↑ Ronald A. Jenner, Cees H. J. Hof & Frederick R. Schram (1998). "Palaeo- and archaeostomatopods (Hoplocarida: Crustacea) from the Bear Gulch Limestone, Mississippian (Namurian), of central Montana". Contributions to Zoology 67 (3): 155–186.

Orders of Malacostraca

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea

Phyllocarida

†Archaeostraca
†Hoplostraca
Leptostraca
†Canadaspidida?
†Hymenostraca?

Hoplocarida

†Aeschronectida
†Archaeostomatopoda
Stomatopoda (mantis shrimp)

Eumalacostraca

Syncarida	Anaspidacea Bathynellacea Palaeocaridacea

Peracarida	Spelaeogriphacea Thermosbaenacea Lophogastrida Mysida (opossum shrimp) Stygiomysida Mictacea Amphipoda Isopoda †Pygocephalomorpha Tanaidacea Cumacea (hooded shrimp)

Eucarida	Amphionidacea (Amphionides reynaudii) Euphausiacea (krill) Decapoda (shrimp, prawns, crayfish, lobsters, crabs, etc.)

The three most speciose orders are marked in bold; obelisks (†) mark extinct orders.

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