Branchiocaris

Branchiocaris
Temporal range: Middle Cambrian
Fossil holotype of Branchiocaris pretiosa
Reconstruction of Branchiocaris pretiosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Order: †Hymenocarina
Family: †Protocarididae
Genus: †Branchiocaris
Briggs, 1976
Species
  • Branchiocaris pretiosa (Resser, 1929) (type)
  • Branchiocaris? yunnanensis Hou 1987
  • Branchiocaris malongensis Luo et al. 2008
  • Branchiocaris xundianensis Luo et al. 2008
  • Branchiocaris yiliangensis Luo et al. 2008

Branchiocaris is an extinct genus of Cambrian bivalved arthropod. The type and best known species, Branchiocaris pretiosa, was described from the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada, in 1929, originally placed in Protocaris, and was placed into its own distinct genus by Briggs in 1976. Several other possible species have been described from Cambrian deposits in China, and it is also possibly known from Cambrian deposits in Utah.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.