Houcaris
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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.
Houcaris
Anomalocaris
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Anomalocaris is an extinct genus of radiodont, an order of early-diverging stem-group marine arthropods. It is best known from the type species A. canadensis, found in the Stephen Formation of British
Houcaris
…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. Other possible species include H. magnabasis and H. consimilis. The genus Houcaris was established for the two species in 2021 and honors Hou Xian-guang…
Anomalocaris canadensis, Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, Alberta, 2025 07 13
3D model of the frontal appendages of Anomalocaris canadensis
Fossilised compound eyes of Anomalocaris from the Emu Bay shale of Australia with preserved individual ommatidia lenses. Scale bar = 5 millimetres (0.20 in) in left and centre images, 0.3 millimetres (1⁄64 in) on right
Anomalocaris canadensis grasping claw, Burgess Shale