Archaeostraca
| Archaeostraca Temporal range:
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| Nahecaris stuertzi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Subclass: | Phyllocarida |
| Order: | †Archaeostraca Claus, 1888[1] |
| Suborders[1] | |
Archaeostraca is an extinct order of crustaceans in the subclass Phyllocarida.[1] It first appeared in the Late Cambrian and became very diverse in both the Late Silurian and the Devonian.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Archaeostraca Claus, 1888 †". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2025. Retrieved 30 November 2025.
- ^ a b Liu, Yilong; Poschmann, Markus J.; Fan, Ruoying; Zong, Ruiwen; Gong, Yiming (January 2023). "Silurian phyllocarid crustaceans (Phyllocarida, Archaeostraca) from South China". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 21 (1): 1. doi:10.1080/14772019.2023.2187718.
External links
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