Asmussia

Taxobox
name = "Asmussia"
fossil_range = Devonian
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Branchiopoda
infraclassis = Diplostraca
ordo = Spinicaudata
genus = "Asmussia"
species = "A. murchisoniana"
binomial = "Asmussia murchisoniana"

"Asmussia murchisoniana" was a Devonian crustacean of the class Branchiopoda. Like other clam shrimps, "Asmussia" had a bivalved shell, which was its only preserved part, about 3 mm long. It probably was a filter feeder or a scavenger.

References

[http://www.fettes.com/orkney/Fossils/Asmussia.htm Asmussia]