Houcaris

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Houcaris
Temporal range: Cambrian Series 2
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Fossils of H. magnabasis (B)
and H. saron (D)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class:† Dinocaridida
Order:† Radiodonta
Genus:† Houcaris
Wu et al., 2021
Type species
Houcaris saron
(Hou, Bergström, & Ahlberg, 1995)
Other species
  • †H.? magnabasis
    (Pates, Daley, Edgecombe, Cong, & Lieberman, 2019)
  • †H.? consimilis
    (Cong et al., 2018)

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. The type species is Houcaris saron which was originally described as a species of the related genus Anomalocaris . [1] Other possible species include H. magnabasis and H. consimilis. [2] [3] The genus Houcaris was established for the two species in 2021 and honors Hou Xianguang, who had discovered and named the type species Anomalocaris saron in 1995 along with his colleagues Jan Bergström and Per E. Ahlberg. [4]

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Species

Houcaris saron

H. saron, known from Maotianshan Shale in Yunnan, is first described in 1995 as Anomalocaris saron. [4] This species is only known from frontal appendages. There is a specimen (ELRC 20001) that is previously considered as whole body fossil of this species, [4] but later study shows that this specimen is not belonging to this species, and later given own genus Innovatiocaris . [5] [6] [7] Length of frontal appendage is up to at least 12 cm. [2] Sometimes considered to belong to family Anomalocarididae [8] [9] or Amplectobeluidae. [10] [11]

Houcaris? magnabasis

H.? magnabasis, known from Pioche Shale and Pyramid shale in Nevada, is originally described as Anomalocaris cf. saron in 2003, [12] and later named as Anomalocaris magnabasis in 2019. [1] This species is only known from frontal appendages and some partial fossils of oral cone (mouthpart) and flaps. [1] Largest estimated length of frontal appendage is 17.5 cm. [1] Sometimes considered to belong to family Anomalocarididae [8] [9] or Amplectobeluidae. [10] [11]

However, results from the phylogenetic analysis by McCall in 2023 suggest that H.? magnabasis does not form a monophyletic clade with other species of Houcaris, and that it is a sister taxon of the Amplectobeluidae. Thus, he tentatively referred to the species as Anomalocaris magnabasis, even though the results show that it also does not form a clade with known species of Anomalocaris. [3]

Houcaris? consimilis

Originally described as a species of Ramskoeldia , it is known from the Maotianshan Shales of South China and possibly the Latham Shale of California. [1] However, on the basis of phylogenetic analysis in 2023, McCall suggested that it does not form a monophyletic clade with the type species of Ramskoeldia, but instead with H. saron, so he included this species within the genus as Houcaris consimilis. His results also consistently recover both species as a member of the Amplectobeluidae. [3]

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<i>Peytoia</i> Extinct genus of radiodont

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<i>Amplectobelua</i> Extinct genus of radiodont

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<i>Pambdelurion</i> Extinct genus of Arthropod

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<i>Parapeytoia</i> Extinct genus of arthropods

Parapeytoia is a genus of Cambrian arthropod. The type and only described species is Parapeytoia yunnanensis, lived over 518 million years ago in the Maotianshan shales of Yunnan, China. Unidentified fossils from the same genus also had been discovered from the nearby Wulongqing Formation.

<i>Schinderhannes bartelsi</i> Extinct species of radiodont

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<i>Cucumericrus</i> Extinct genus of arthropod

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Amplectobeluidae</span> Extinct clade of Cambrian organisms

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hurdiidae</span> Extinct family of arthropods

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<i>Ramskoeldia</i> Extinct genus of Amplectobeluid radiodont

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<i>Kylinxia</i> Genus of fossil arthropod

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Innovatiocaris is a genus of radiodont of uncertain family from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte of Yunnan Province, China. The genus contains two named species, I. maotianshanensis, known from a nearly complete young individual measuring up to 15.2 cm (6.0 in) and isolated frontal appendages, and I.? multispiniformis, known from a complete frontal appendage.

References

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