Protocaris

Protocaris
P. marshi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Protocaridida
Family: Protocarididae
Genus: Protocaris
Walcott, 1884 [1]

Protocaris marshi is an extinct Cambrian arthropod[2] that resembles branchiopod notostracan crustaceans of the genus Triops.[3]

References

  1. 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. 10. USGS. pp. 50–51.
  2. 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. 30. USGS. pp. 11–71.
  3. H. M. Bernard (1894). "The systematic position of the trilobites". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. 50: 411–434. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1894.050.01-04.28.
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