Malacostraca - Archaeostraca

Parent taxon: Archaeostraca according to D. E. G. Briggs et al. 2004

See also Feldmann and Schweitzer 2019

Sister taxa: Arenosicaris, Baituganocaris, Caryocaridina, Ceratiocaridina, Dictyocaris, Dilophaspis, Echinocaridina, Emmelezoe, Guerichicaris, Kerfornecaris, Lebesconteia, Palaeopemphida, Rhinocaridina, Rhinocarina, Schugurocaris, Trigonocarys

Subtaxa: Ohiocarididae Pephricaris

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Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Big Creek, Chagrin shale (Devonian of Ohio)

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