Cryptocaris

Cryptocaris
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Remipedia
Order: Enantiopoda
Family: Tesnusocarididae
Genus: Cryptocaris
Schram, 1974
Species:
C. hootchi
Binomial name
Cryptocaris hootchi
Schram, 1974

Cryptocaris is an extinct, monospecific genus of remipedes in the family Tesnusocarididae. It lived in what are now the Mazon Creek fossil beds in Illinois during the Middle Pennsylvanian.

The type and only species is C. hootchi.