Houcaris

Houcaris
Temporal range: Cambrian Series 2
Fossils of H. magnabasis (B)
and H. saron (D)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Order: †Radiodonta
Genus: †Houcaris
Wu et al., 2021
Type species
Houcaris saron
(Hou, Bergström, & Ahlberg, 1995)
Other species
  • †H.? magnabasis
    (Pates, Daley, Edgecombe, Cong, & Lieberman, 2019)
  • †H.? consimilis
    (Cong et al., 2018)

Houcaris is a possibly paraphyletic radiodont genus, tentatively assigned to either Amplectobeluidae, Anomalocarididae or Tamisiocarididae, known from Cambrian Series 2 of China and the United States. The type species is Houcaris saron which was originally described as a species of the related genus Anomalocaris.[1] Other possible species include H. magnabasis and H. consimilis.[2][3] The genus Houcaris was established for the two species in 2021 and honors Hou Xianguang, who had discovered and named the type species Anomalocaris saron in 1995 along with his colleagues Jan Bergström and Per E. Ahlberg.[4]

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