Thylacares brandonensis Haug et al. 2014 (crustacean)

Thylacocephala

Full reference: C. Haug, D. E. G. Briggs, D. G. Mikulic, J. Kluessendorf, and J. T. Haug. 2014. The implications of a Silurian and other thylacocephalan crustaceans for the functional morphology and systematic affinities of the group. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14(159):1-15

Belongs to Thylacares according to C. Haug et al. 2014

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UWGM 1748, a carapace. Its type locality is Waukesha Lime and Stone Company quarry, which is in a Telychian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal mudstone/dolomite in the Brandon Bridge Formation of Wisconsin.

Ecology: nektobenthic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Waukesha Lime and Stone Company quarry

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