Stanleycaris

Stanleycaris
Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3–Miaolingian
Reconstruction of S. hirpex
Complete specimen of S. hirpex
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Order: †Radiodonta
Family: †Hurdiidae
Genus: †Stanleycaris
Pates, Daley & Ortega-Hernández, 2018
Type species
†Stanleycaris hirpex
Pates, Daley & Ortega-Hernández, 2018
Species
  • †S. hirpex
    Pates, Daley & Ortega-Hernández, 2018
  • †S. qingjiangensis
    Wu et al., 2024[1]

Stanleycaris is an extinct genus of hurdiid radiodont from the Cambrian (Stage 3 to Miaolingian). The type species is Stanleycaris hirpex. Stanleycaris was described from the Stephen Formation near the Stanley Glacier[2] and Burgess Shale locality of Canada,[3] as well as Wheeler Formation of United States.[4] A second species, S. qingjiangensis is known from the Qingjiang biota of China.[1] The genus was characterized by the rake-like frontal appendages with robust inner spines.[5][3]

  1. ^ a b Wu, Yu; Pates, Stephen; Zhang, Mingjing; Lin, Weiliang; Ma, Jiaxin; Liu, Cong; Wu, Yuheng; Zhang, Xingliang; Fu, Dongjing (21 August 2024). "Exceptionally preserved radiodont arthropods from the lower Cambrian (Stage 3) Qingjiang Lagerstätte of Hubei, South China and the biogeographic and diversification patterns of radiodonts". Papers in Palaeontology. 10 (4). Bibcode:2024PPal...10E1583W. doi:10.1002/spp2.1583.
  2. ^ Caron, J. -B.; Gaines, R. R.; Mangano, M. G.; Streng, M.; Daley, A. C. (2010). "A new Burgess Shale-type assemblage from the "thin" Stephen Formation of the southern Canadian Rockies". Geology. 38 (9): 811. Bibcode:2010Geo....38..811C. doi:10.1130/G31080.1.
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