Houcaris
| Houcaris Temporal range:
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| Fossils of H. magnabasis (B) and H. saron (D) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Stem group: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Dinocaridida |
| Order: | †Radiodonta |
| Genus: | †Houcaris Wu et al., 2021 |
| Type species | |
| Houcaris saron (Hou, Bergström, & Ahlberg, 1995)
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Houcaris is a possibly paraphyletic radiodont genus, tentatively assigned to either Amplectobeluidae, Anomalocarididae or Tamisiocarididae, known from Cambrian Series 2 of China and the United States. The type species is Houcaris saron which was originally described as a species of the related genus Anomalocaris. Other possible species include H. magnabasis and H. consimilis. The genus Houcaris was established for the two species in 2021 and honors Hou Xian-guang, who had discovered and named the type species Anomalocaris saron in 1995 along with his colleagues Jan Bergström and Per E. Ahlberg.