Waptiidae

Waptiidae is an extinct family of shrimp-like stem group crustaceans that lived during the Early to Middle Cambrian (about 520 to 505 million years ago).[1] It is the only family classified under the order Waptiida which is tentatively included in the clade Crustaceomorpha.[2][3]

Waptiidae Temporal range: Early Cambrian to Middle Cambrian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Waptia fieldensis from the Burgess Shale Formation
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Crustaceomorpha
Order:	†Waptiida Størmer, 1944
Family:	†Waptiidae Walcott, 1912
Type genus
Waptia Walcott, 1912
Genera
See text

Waptiidae includes the following genera and species:[3][4]

• Chuandianella Hou & Bergström, 1991

• Chuandianella ovata (Li, 1975)

• Pauloterminus Taylor, 2002 (?)

• Pauloterminus spinodorsalis Taylor, 2002

• Plenocaris Whittington 1974 (?)

• Plenocaris plena Hou & Bergström, 1997

• Waptia Walcott, 1912

• Waptia fieldensis Walcott, 1912

See also

• Burgess Shale
• Maotianshan Shale
• Sirius Passet

References

1. "Waptiidae". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved February 16, 2012.
2. J. John Sepkoski Jr. (1992). "Stratigraphic Ranges of Vendian and Cambrian Animal Families". In J. William Schoff & Cornelius Klein (ed.). The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study. Cambridge University Press. p. 1177. ISBN 978-0-521-36615-1.
3. Mikko Haaramo (October 4, 2007). "Crustaceomorpha – crustaceans and related arthropods". Mikko's Phylogeny Archive. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
4. Rod S. Taylor (2002). "A new bivalved arthropod from the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet fauna, North Greenland". Palaeontology. The Palaeontological Association. 45 (Part 1): 97–123. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00229.