Tafilocaris
| Tafilocaris Temporal range: Upper Ordovician (Sandbian)
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| Holotype of Tafilocaris ordovicica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Order: | †Nektaspida |
| Family: | †Emucarididae |
| Genus: | †Tafilocaris García-Bellido & Gutiérrez-Marco, 2025 |
| Species: | †T. ordovicica
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| Binomial name | |
| †Tafilocaris ordovicica García-Bellido & Gutiérrez-Marco, 2025
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Tafilocaris (Tafilalt shrimp) is an extinct genus of emucaridid nektapsid arthropod known from the Upper Ordovician (Sandbian) Tafilalt biota of Morocco. It is notable due to its giant size (being the largest known nektaspid) and extremely young age in contrast to other emucaridids.