Phyllocarida

Phyllocarida
Temporal range: 500–0 Ma
Nebalia bipes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Subclass: Phyllocarida
Packard, 1879
Orders

Phyllocarida is a subclass of crustaceans, comprising the extant order Leptostraca and the extinct orders Hymenostraca and Archaeostraca. This clade of marine crustaceans diversified extensively during the Ordovician.

Undescribed fossil of a very large phyllocarid from the Yukon (Devonian)

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