Tamisiocaris
Appearance
Tamisiocaris Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | †Dinocaridida |
Order: | †Radiodonta |
Family: | †Tamisiocarididae |
Genus: | †Tamisiocaris Daley & Peel, 2010 |
Species: | †T. borealis
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Binomial name | |
†Tamisiocaris borealis Daley & Peel, 2010
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Tamisiocaris (from Latin tamisium, sieve, and Greek karis, crab, shrimp)[1] is a radiodont genus initially only known from frontal appendages from the Buen Formation in Sirius Passet. Further specimens revealed that the frontal appendages were segmented and bore densely-packed auxiliary spines, which were adapted to suspension feeding in a manner analogous to modern baleen whales.[2]
See also
- Tamisiocarididae – Clade of extinct arthropods
References
- ^ Allison C. Daley & John S. Peel (2010). "A possible anomalocaridid from the Cambrian Sirius Passet lagerstätte, North Greenland". Journal of Paleontology. 84 (2): 352–355. doi:10.1666/09-136R1.1.
- ^ Jakob Vinther; Martin Stein; Nicholas R. Longrich & David A. T. Harper (2014). "A suspension-feeding anomalocarid from the Early Cambrian" (PDF). Nature. 507 (7493): 496–499. doi:10.1038/nature13010. PMID 24670770.