Biology:Waptiidae
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Short description: Extinct family of crustaceans
| Waptiidae | |
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| Waptia fieldensis from the Burgess Shale Formation | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Mandibulata |
| Order: | †Hymenocarina Størmer, 1944 |
| Family: | †Waptiidae Walcott, 1912 |
| Type genus | |
| Waptia Walcott, 1912
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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]
- Chuandianella Hou & Bergström, 1991
- Chuandianella ovata (Li, 1975)
- Pauloterminus Taylor, 2002 (?)
- Pauloterminus spinodorsalis Taylor, 2002
- Plenocaris Whittington 1974 (?)
- Plenocaris plena Hou & Bergström, 1997
- Waptia Walcott, 1912
- Waptia fieldensis Walcott, 1912
See also
- Burgess Shale
- Maotianshan Shale
- Sirius Passet
References
- ↑ "Waptiidae". Paleobiology Database. http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl. Retrieved February 16, 2012.
- ↑ 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=jMPfQoFNr-IC&q=Waptiidae&pg=PA1177.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mikko Haaramo (October 4, 2007). "Crustaceomorpha – crustaceans and related arthropods". Mikko's Phylogeny Archive. http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/protostoma/arthropoda/crustacea/crustaceomorpha.html. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
- ↑ 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q7968308 entry
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