Aciculopoda
| Aciculopoda Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Dendrobranchiata |
| Superfamily: | Penaeoidea |
| Family: | †Aciculopodidae Feldmann & Schweitzer, 2010 |
| Genus: | †Aciculopoda Feldmann & Schweitzer, 2010 |
| Species: | †A. mapesi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Aciculopoda mapesi Feldmann & Schweitzer, 2010 | |
Aciculopoda is an extinct prawn which existed in what is now Oklahoma approximately 360 million years ago. It was described in 2010 on the basis of a single fossil from Oklahoma. The single species, Aciculopoda mapesi, was named by Rodney Feldmann and Carrie Schweitzer in honour of Royal Mapes, a paleontologist who discovered the type specimen. It is only the third unambiguous fossil decapod from before the Mesozoic.
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