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