Hoplocarida
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Odontodactylus scyllarus (Stomatopoda: Odontodactylidae) | |
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Subclass: | Hoplocarida Calman, 1904
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Hoplocarida is a subclass of crustaceans. The only extant members are the mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda), but two other orders existed in the Palaeozoic: Aeschronectida and Palaeostomatopoda.[1]
References
- ^ Ronald A. Jenner, Cees H. J. Hof & Frederick R. Schram (1998). "Palaeo- and archaeostomatopods (Hoplocarida: Crustacea) from the Bear Gulch Limestone, Mississippian (Namurian), of central Montana". Contributions to Zoology. 67 (3): 155–186.