Malacostraca - Archaeostraca - Ceratiocarididae
Full reference: F. M'Coy. 1849. On the classification of some British fossil Crustacea with notices of new forms in the university collection at Cambridge. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 4:392-414
Parent taxon: Ceratiocarididae according to J. H. Collette and J. W. Hagadorn 2010
See also Barrande 1872 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Gonatocaris, Heroldina, Pumilocaris, Warneticaris
Subtaxa: Ceratiocaris (Bohemicaris) Ceratiocaris (Colpocaris) Ceratiocaris (Limnocaris) Ceratiocaris acuminata Ceratiocaris berdanae Ceratiocaris bohemica Ceratiocaris debilis Ceratiocaris decipiens Ceratiocaris longicauda Ceratiocaris maccoyanus Ceratiocaris macroura Ceratiocaris papilio Ceratiocaris praecedens Ceratiocaris primulus Ceratiocaris pusillus Ceratiocaris scharyi Ceratiocaris silicula Ceratiocaris solenoides Ceratiocaris tardus Ceratiocaris telleri
Type: Ceratiocaris solenoides
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of the Czech Republic (1 collection), Morocco (1), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Italy (1)
• Silurian of Canada (1: New Brunswick), the Czech Republic (16), France (1), Italy (2), Poland (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (8: Florida, Illinois, New York, Wisconsin)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Arenig of Bolivia (2), Sweden (1)
• Ordovician of the Czech Republic (1), Portugal (1), Sweden (2)
• Tremadoc of Sweden (2)
Total: 47 collections including 52 occurrences
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