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Palaeocuma

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Subphylum
  
Crustacea

Superorder
  
Peracarida

Scientific name
  
Palaeocuma hessi

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Class
  
Malacostraca

Order
  
Cumacea

Rank
  
Genus

Palaeocuma hessi is an extinct species of cumacean, the only species in the genus Palaeocuma, and one of very few fossil cumaceans ever discovered. It lived in the Callovian age (Middle Jurassic) in France.

References

Palaeocuma Wikipedia