Plenocaris
Encyclopedia
Plenocaris plena is a crustacean
-like arthropod with a bivalved carapace, and is known from the Burgess shale
and Chengjiang.
It probably lacked pleopods, but had uropods.
Crustacean
Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span...
-like arthropod with a bivalved carapace, and is known from the Burgess shale
Burgess Shale
The Burgess Shale Formation, located in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, is one of the world's most celebrated fossil fields, and the best of its kind. It is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils...
and Chengjiang.
It probably lacked pleopods, but had uropods.
External links
- Image of Plenocaris fossil