Genus of small freshwater animals
Protocaris Temporal range:
Cambrian Series 2
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P. marshi
Holotype specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
incertae sedis
Order:
Hymenocarina
Family:
Protocarididae
Genus:
Protocaris
Walcott, 1884 [1]
Species:
Protocaris marshi
Protocaris marshi is an extinct species of bivalved arthropod known from a single specimen collected from the Cambrian Series 2 aged Parker Formation from the Parker Quarry of northwestern Vermont, United States[2] [3] The specimen is preserved in top-down view and has a bivalved carapace, a segmented trunk and a forked tail. Its precise taxonomic position is uncertain, due to the limited nature of known remains, but it is suggested to be a member of Hymenocarina belonging to the family Protocarididae, which also includes Tokummia and Branchiocaris. [4]
^ Charles Doolittle Walcott (1884). "On a new genus and species of Phyllopoda from the Middle Cambrian". On the Cambrian faunas of North America. Preliminary studies . Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey. Vol. 10. USGS. pp. 50–51.
^ Charles Doolittle Walcott (1886). "Introductory observations". Second contribution to the studies on the Cambrian faunas of North America . Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey. Vol. 30. USGS. pp. 11–71.
^ Pari, Giovanni; Briggs, Derek E.G.; Gaines, Robert R. (2022-02-16). "The soft-bodied biota of the Cambrian Series 2 Parker Quarry Lagerstätte of northwestern Vermont, USA". Journal of Paleontology . 96 (4): 770–790. doi:10.1017/jpa.2021.125 . ISSN 0022-3360.
^ Aria, Cédric; Caron, Jean-Bernard (2017-04-26). "Burgess Shale fossils illustrate the origin of the mandibulate body plan". Nature . 545 (7652): 89–92. doi:10.1038/nature22080. ISSN 0028-0836.
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