Tesnusocaris
| Tesnusocaris Temporal range:
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| Tesnusocaris goldichi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Remipedia |
| Order: | †Enantiopoda |
| Family: | †Tesnusocarididae |
| Genus: | †Tesnusocaris Brooks, 1955 |
| Species: | †T. goldichi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Tesnusocaris goldichi Brooks, 1955
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Tesnusocaris is an extinct, monospecific genus of remipedian crustaceans that lived in the Pennsylvanian period, one of the two representatives of the extinct remipedian order Enantiopoda. It is known from a fossil discovered in the Lower Pennsylvanian (Paleozoic, Carboniferous) Tesnus Formation of Texas. The other known enantiopod remipedian is Cryptocaris hootchi of the Mazon Creek fauna.