Biology:Hoplocarida

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Short description: Subclass of crustaceans

Hoplocarida
Kallidecthes richardsoni fossil shrimp (Mazon Creek Lagerstatte, Francis Creek Shale, Middle Pennsylvanian; coal mine dump pile near Essex, northern Illinois, USA).jpg
Fossil of Kallidecthes richardsoni
(Aeschronectida: Kallidecthidae)
Odontodactylus scyllarus3.jpg
Odontodactylus scyllarus
(Stomatopoda: Odontodactylidae)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Subclass: Hoplocarida
Calman, 1904
Orders

Hoplocarida is a subclass of crustaceans. The only extant members are the mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda), but two other orders existed in the Palaeozoic: Aeschronectida and Palaeostomatopoda.[1]

References

  1. 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. http://dpc.uba.uva.nl/ctz/vol67/nr03/art01. Retrieved 2010-01-20. 


Wikidata ☰ Q625077 entry