Waptia

Waptia

Taxobox | name = "Waptia"
fossil_range = Middle Cambrian



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image2_caption= A fossil (top) and reconstruction of "Waptia"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Crustacea
ordo = Waptiida
familia = Waptiidae
genus = "Waptia"
species = "W. fieldensis"
species_authority = Walcott, 1912

"Waptia fieldensis" was a small, shrimp-like stem group crustacean. Many Cambrian crustaceomorphs such as "Waptia" lack the mouthparts to be classified as crown group crustaceans that lived during the Middle Cambrian about 510 million years ago .

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External links

[http://www.nhm.uio.no/palmus/galleri/montre/english/a30976.htm Picture and fossil of the species]


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