Anomalocaris canadensis

Fossil at MUSE - Science Museum in Trento

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Radiodonta
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Classis: †Dinocaridida Ordo: †Radiodonta

Familia: †Anomalocarididae
Genus: †Anomalocaris
Species: †Anomalocaris canadensis

Name

Anomalocaris canadensis Whiteaves, 1892: 206

Synonymy

• Anomalocaris (?) whiteavesi Walcott, 1908: 242, 246, pl. 2, figs 4, 6, 6a non figs. 2 and 2a [syn.: Briggs, 1979]
• Anomalocaris gigantea Walcott, 1912: 180, pl. 34, fig. 3 [syn.: Briggs, 1979]
• Anomalocaris cranbrookensis Resser, 1929: 6, 12, 15, pl. 2, fig. 4 [syn.: Briggs, 1979]

References

Primary references

• Briggs, D.E.G. 1979. Anomalocaris, the largest known Cambrian arthropod. Palaeontology 22(3): 631–664. BHL.
• Walcott, C.D. 1908. Mount Stephen rocks and fossils. Canadian Alpine Journal 1(2): 232–248. Wikisource .
• Walcott, C.D. 1912. Middle Cambrian Branchiopoda, Malacostraca, Trilobita and Merostomata. In: Cambrian geology and paleontology. II. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 57: 145–228, pls. 24–34, text figs. 8–10. BHL.
• Whiteaves, J.F. 1892. Description of a new genus and species of phyllocarid Crustacea from the Middle Cambrian of Mount Stephen, B.C. Canadian Record of Science 5(4): 205–208. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Briggs, D.E.G. & Mount, J.D. 1982. The occurrence of the giant arthropod Anomalocaris in the Lower Cambrian of southern California, and the overall distribution of the genus. Journal of Paleontology 56(5): 1112–1118. JSTOR Reference page. 
• Collins, D.H. 1996. The "evolution" of Anomalocaris and its classification in the arthropod class Dinocarida (nov.) and order Radiodonta (nov.) Journal of Paleontology 70(2) 280–293. Reference page. 
• Daley, A.C. & Edgecombe, G.D. 2014. Morphology of Anomalocaris canadensis from the Burgess Shale. Journal of Paleontology 88(1): 68–91. DOI: 10.1666/13-067 Reference page. 
• Anomalocaris (of unknown affinity) and Tuzoia (a possible arthropod) from the Lower Cambrian Eager Formation near Cransbrook, British Columbia.
• Palaeozoic fossils.
• A new conundrum from the Middle Cambrian Burgess shale.
• The largest Cambrian animal, Anomalocaris, Burgess Shale, British Columbia.