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Cryptocaris hootchi

Remipedia - Enantiopoda - Tesnusocarididae

Taxonomy
Cryptocaris hootchi was named by Schram (1974). Its type specimen is FMNH P51405, an exoskeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Area 3, Pit 11, Peabody Coal Company, which is in a Moscovian marine shale in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois. It is the type species of Cryptocaris.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1974Cryptocaris hootchi Schram p. 100 figs. 4-10
1986Cryptocaris hootchi Schram et al. p. 133
1991Cryptocaris hootchi Emerson and Schram p. 29 figs. 19-22

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
RankNameAuthor
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
classRemipediaYager 1981
orderEnantiopodaBirshtein 1960
familyTesnusocarididaeBrooks 1955
genusCryptocaris
specieshootchiSchram 1974

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Cryptocaris hootchi Schram 1974
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Diagnosis
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