Lepidocaris
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Lepidocaris rhyniensis is an extinct species of crustacean. It is the only species known from the order Lipostraca, and is the only abundant animal in the Pragian-aged Rhynie chert deposits. It resemb
Lepidocaris rhyniensis
Lepidocaris may have resembled Artemia salina both morphologically and ecologically.
A modern Nitella meadow, seen from above; Lepidocaris is likely to have inhabited a similar habitat in the Devonian.
Branchiopoda
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Branchiopoda is a class of crustaceans. It comprises fairy shrimp, clam shrimp, Diplostraca, Notostraca, the Devonian Lepidocaris and possibly the Cambrian Rehbachiella. They are mostly small, freshwa
Lepidocaris
…species, Scourfield noted that Lepidocaris could not be accommodated in the existing order Anostraca, and even suggested that a position outside the Branchiopoda was not unthinkable. In 1986, Frederick Schram considered Lipostraca to be the sister group to Brachypoda, with the two orders together making up the…
Triops longicaudatus adult ventral