Houcaris
| Houcaris Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| Fossils of H. magnabasis (B) and H. saron (D) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Dinocaridida |
| Order: | †Radiodonta |
| Genus: | †Houcaris Wu, Fu, Ma, Lin, Sun, & Zhang, 2021 |
| Type species | |
| Houcaris saron (Hou, Bergström, & Ahlberg, 1995) | |
| Referred species | |
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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. It contains two species, Houcaris saron and Houcaris magnabasis, both of which were originally named as species of the related genus Anomalocaris. 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.
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