Stanleycaris
Stanleycaris (meaning "crab of Stanley Glacier") is an extinct, monotypic genus of anomalocaridid which existed in Canada, during the middle Cambrian. Its fossils were found in the Burgess Shale in [1] and also informally reported from Mount Odaray.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Dinocaridida |
| Order: | Radiodonta |
| Family: | Hurdiidae |
| Genus: | Stanleycaris |
| Species: | S. hirpex
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| Binomial name | |
| Stanleycaris hirpex Pates, Daley & Ortega-Hernández (2018)
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Putative lobopodian species Aysheaia prolata from Utah, United States were reinterpreted as an isolated frontal appendage of a member of the genus Stanleycaris by Pates, Daley & Ortega-Hernández (2017).[3]
Stanleycaris Media
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Interpretation of the brain and associated structures of radiodonts until 2014 (A), and after anatomy of Stanleycaris (B)
Life reconstruction of S. hirpex on seafloor
20191228 Radiodonta frontal appendage Tamisiocarididae Cetiocaridae
Examples of the radiodont genus Anomalocaris (stem-Arthropoda: Dinocaridida: Radiodonta:
Examples of Amplectobeluid radiodonts (stem-Arthropoda: Dinocaridida: Radiodonta:
20220716 Stanleycaris hirpex
20210708 Schinderhannes bartelsi diagrammatic reconstruction
20191021 Peytoia nathorsti Laggania cambria
20191205 Aegirocassis benmoulai Aegirocassis benmoulae
3D reconstruction of frontal appendages
References
- ↑ Caron, J. -B.; Gaines, R. R.; Mangano, M. G.; Streng, M.; Daley, A. C. (2010). "A new Burgess Shale-type assemblage from the "thin" Stephen Formation of the southern Canadian Rockies". Geology. 38 (9): 811. Bibcode:2010Geo....38..811C. doi:10.1130/G31080.1.
- ↑ "Burgess-shale-sites-provide-scientists-with-new-finds". Rocky Mountain Outlook. http://www.rmoutlook.com/article/20100909/RMO0801/309099988/-1/rmo/burgess-shale-sites-provide-scientists-with-new-finds. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
- ↑ Stephen Pates; Allison C. Daley; Javier Ortega-Hernández (2017). "Aysheaia prolata from the Utah Wheeler Formation (Drumian, Cambrian) is a frontal appendage of the radiodontan Stanleycaris". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 62 (3): 619–625. doi:10.4202/app.00361.2017.