Kingdom Animalia Clade Crustaceomorpha Family †Waptiidae | Phylum Arthropoda Order †Waptiida | |
Genus †Plenocaris
Whittington 1974 Similar Priscansermarinus, Habelia, Molaria, Worthenella, Actaeus | ||
Plenocaris plena is a crustacean-like arthropod with a bivalved carapace, and is known from the Burgess shale and Chengjiang. 106 specimens of Plenocaris are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.20% of the community.
It probably lacked pleopods, but had uropods.
References
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