Tesnusocarididae
| Tesnusocarididae Temporal range:
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| Tesnusocaris goldichi | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Remipedia |
| Order: | †Enantiopoda Birshtein, 1960 |
| Family: | †Tesnusocarididae Brooks, 1955 |
| Type genus | |
| †Tesnusocaris Brooks, 1955
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Tesnusocarididae is an extinct family of remipedes and the sole member of the order Enantiopoda. It contains two genera, the type genus Tesnusocaris, and Cryptocaris, both known from the Carboniferous, with Tesnusocaris known from the Lower Pennsylvanian Tesnus Formation and Cryptocaris from the Middle Pennsylvanian Mazon Creek fossil beds.