Aeschronectida

Aeschronectida
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Subclass: Hoplocarida
Order: †Aeschronectida
Schram, 1969
Families & genera

Aenigmacarididae

Aratidecthidae

Kallidecthidae

Aeschronectida is an extinct order of mantis shrimp-like crustaceans which lived in the Mississippian subperiod in what is now Montana.[1] They exclusively lived in the Carboniferous, or the age of amphibians. They have been found mostly in the U.S. and in the British Isles, in 1979 species were found in the Madera Formation in New Mexico.[2] Aeschronectida was first identified appearing in Continental Europe in around 2014.[3] While sharing similar characteristics to Stomatopoda, they lack certain physical characteristics of that taxon.[4] The first species of Aeschronectida is accredited to Frederick R. Schram. They diverge substantially from typical hoplocaridan morphology by having more unmodified thoracopods.[1] It's theorized that these thoracopods evolved to become more specialized, making them potential ancestors to Stomatopoda.[5]

  1. ^ a b Jenner, Ronald A.; Hof, Cees H. J.; Schram, Frederick R. (1998). "Palaeo- and archaeostomatopods (Hoplocarida: Crustacea) from the Bear Gulch Limestone, Mississippian (Namurian), of central Montana". Contributions to Zoology. 67 (3): 155–186. doi:10.1163/18759866-06703001.
  2. ^ Schram, F. R., & Schram, J. M. (1979). Some Shrimp of the Madera Formation (Pennsylvanian) Manzanita Mountains, New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology, 53(1), 169–174. JSTOR 1304046
  3. ^ Hyzny, Matus & Hoch, Ivan & Schram, Frederick & Rybár, Samuel. (2014). Crangopsis Salter, 1863 from the Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian) of the Ostrava Formation - the first record of Aeschronectida (Malacostraca: Hoplocarida) from continental Europe. Bulletin of Geosciences. 89. 707-717. 10.3140/bull.geosci.1458.
  4. ^ Haug, Joachim T; Haug, Carolin; Maas, Andreas; Kutschera, Verena; Waloszek, Dieter (2010). "Evolution of mantis shrimps (Stomatopoda, Malacostraca) in the light of new Mesozoic fossils". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10 (1): 290. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-290. ISSN 1471-2148. PMC 2955030. PMID 20858249.
  5. ^ Hof, Cees H. J.; Schram, Frederick R.; Watling, Les (2000-07-20). "The Place of the Hoplocarida in the Malacostracan Pantheon". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 20 (5): 1–11. doi:10.1163/1937240X-90000002. ISSN 0278-0372.