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Wisangocaris

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Wisangocaris
Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 4
Life restoration feeding on the trilobite Estaingia bilobata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Order: Habeliida
Family: Sanctacarididae
Genus: Wisangocaris
Species:
W. barbarahardyae
Binomial name
Wisangocaris barbarahardyae
Jago et al 2016

Wisangocaris is an extinct genus of Cambrian arthropod known from the Emu Bay Shale of Australia.[1] Due to the fact that trilobite fragments have been found in its stomach, it was probably durophagous. It been placed in the family Sanctacarididae alongside Sanctacaris as stem-group chelicerates.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Jago, James B.; García-Bellido, Diego C.; Gehling, James G. (2016). "An early Cambrian chelicerate from the Emu Bay Shale, South Australia". Palaeontology. 59 (4): 549–562. Bibcode:2016Palgy..59..549J. doi:10.1111/pala.12243.
  2. ^ Aria C, Caron JB (December 2017). "Mandibulate convergence in an armoured Cambrian stem chelicerate". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (1): 261. Bibcode:2017BMCEE..17..261A. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-1088-7. PMC 5738823. PMID 29262772.