| Sairocaris Temporal range: Mississippian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Hoplostraca |
| Family: | Sairocarididae |
| Genus: | Sairocaris Rolfe, 1963 |
Sairocaris is an extinct genus of crustaceans, in the order Hoplostraca, that lived in the Mississippian age.
References
- Frederick R. Schram & John Horner (1978). "Crustacea of the Mississippian Bear Gulch Limestone of Central Montana". Journal of Paleontology. 52 (2): 394–406. JSTOR 1303712.
- W. D. Ian Rolfe (1981). "Phyllocarida and the origin of the Malacostraca". Geobios. 14 (1): 17–26. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(81)80164-7.
External links
- Sairocaris at the Paleobiology Database
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Sairocaris | |
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