Douglasocaris
| Douglasocaris Temporal range: Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian),
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| Holotype of Douglasocaris collinsi, from the Douglas Lake Member of Lenoir Limestone, at Douglas Dam, Tennessee.[1] | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Family: | †Douglasocaridae Caster & Brooks, 1956 |
| Genus: | †Douglasocaris Caster & Brooks, 1956 |
| Species: | †D. collinsi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Douglasocaris collinsi | |
Douglasocaris is a genus of bivalved malacostracan, sometimes classified instead as either a phyllocarid or a notostracan,[2] from the Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian, 460 million years old) Douglas Lake Member of the Lenoir Limestone from Douglas Dam Tennessee.[3]
Its type and only species is Douglasocaris collinsi.
References
- ^ a b Caster, Kenneth E.; Brooks, H. K. (1956). "New fossils from the Canadian-Chazyan (Ordovician) hiatus in Tennessee". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 36 (157): 157–199 [182].
- ^ Briggs, Derek E.G.; Liu, Huaibao P.; McKay, Robert M.; Witzke, Brian J. (November 2015). "Bivalved arthropods from the Middle Ordovician Winneshiek Lagerstätte, Iowa, USA" (PDF). Journal of Paleontology. 89 (6): 991–1006. Bibcode:2015JPal...89..991B. doi:10.1017/jpa.2015.76. ISSN 0022-3360. S2CID 129986104.
- ^ Retallack, Gregory J. (2019). "Ordovician land plants and fungi from Douglas Dam, Tennessee". The Palaeobotanist. 68 (1–2): 173–205. doi:10.54991/jop.2019.43.