Jilinicaris
| Jilinicaris chinensis Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Stenopodidea |
| Family: | Spongicolidae |
| Genus: | Jilinicaris Schram, Shen, Vonk & Taylor, 2000 |
| Species: | J. chinensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Jilinicaris chinensis Schram, Shen, Vonk & Taylor, 2000 | |
Jilinicaris is an extinct genus of crustacean in the order Decapoda,[1] and is the earliest fossil assigned to the Stenopodidea, having been found in rocks of Late Cretaceous age.[2]
References
- ↑ Sammy De Grave, N. Dean Pentcheff, Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.
- ↑ Frederick R. Shram, Shen Yanbin, Ronald Vonk, & Rodney S. Taylor (2000). "The first fossil stenopodidean". Crustaceana 73 (2): 235–242. doi:10.1163/156854000504183.
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