Waptiidae

Waptiidae
Temporal range:
Early Cambrian to Middle Cambrian
Waptia fieldensis from the Burgess Shale Formation
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Crustaceomorpha
Order: Waptiida
Størmer, 1944
Family: Waptiidae
Walcott, 1912
Type genus
Waptia
Walcott, 1912
Genera

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Waptiidae is an extinct family of shrimp-like stem group crustaceans that lived during the Early to Middle Cambrian (about 520 to 505 million years ago).[1] It is the only family classified under the order Waptiida which is tentatively included in the clade Crustaceomorpha.[2][3]

Waptiidae includes the following genera and species:[3][4]

See also

References

  1. "Waptiidae". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved February 16, 2012.
  2. J. John Sepkoski, Jr. (1992). "Stratigraphic Ranges of Vendian and Cambrian Animal Families". In J. William Schoff & Cornelius Klein. The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study. Cambridge University Press. p. 1177. ISBN 978-0-521-36615-1.
  3. 1 2 Mikko Haaramo (October 4, 2007). "Crustaceomorpha – crustaceans and related arthropods". Mikko's Phylogeny Archive. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
  4. Rod S. Taylor (2002). "A new bivalved arthropod from the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet fauna, North Greenland". Palaeontology (The Palaeontological Association) 45 (Part 1): 97–123. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00229.
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