Spelaeogriphacea References

Spelaeogriphacea; Temporal range: Lower Carboniferous – Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Subclass:	Eumalacostraca
Superorder:	Peracarida
Order:	Spelaeogriphacea; Gordon, 1957
Genera
	Mangkurtu; Potiicoara; Spelaeogriphus; Acadiocarididae † Acadiocaris; † Liaoningogriphus; † Spinogriphus; ;

Spelaeogriphacea is an order of crustaceans that grow to no more than 10 millimetres (0.39 in). Little is known about the ecology of the order.^[1]

Only four species, all subterranean, have been described. Of the three genera, Potiicoara is known only from a cave in Brazil's Mato Grosso, Spelaeogriphus only from a cave on Table Mountain in South Africa, and the two Mangkurtu species only from individual Australian aquifers.^[1] Fossils of the group are known from the Early Carboniferous of Canada ( Acadiocaris) and the Early Cretaceous of Spain ( Spinogriphus, Las Hoyas) and China ( Liaoningogriphus, Yixian Formation), which are assigned to the family Acadiocarididae.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b D. Jaume (2008). "Global diversity of spelaeogriphaceans & thermosbaenaceans (Crustacea; Spelaeogriphacea & Thermosbaenacea) in freshwater". Hydrobiologia. 595 (1): 219–224. doi: 10.1007/s10750-007-9017-1. hdl: 10261/103495. S2CID 24614871.
^ Jaume, Damià; Pinardo-Moya, Eva; Boxshall, Geoff A. (January 2013). "A presumed spelaeogriphacean crustacean from an upper Barremian wetland (Las Hoyas; Lower Cretaceous; Central Spain)". Palaeontology. 56 (1): 15–28. Bibcode: 2013Palgy..56...15J. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01144.x. ISSN 0031-0239.

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[Jaume-1] D. Jaume (2008). "Global diversity of spelaeogriphaceans & thermosbaenaceans (Crustacea; Spelaeogriphacea & Thermosbaenacea) in freshwater". Hydrobiologia. 595 (1): 219–224. doi: 10.1007/s10750-007-9017-1. hdl: 10261/103495. S2CID 24614871.

[2] Jaume, Damià; Pinardo-Moya, Eva; Boxshall, Geoff A. (January 2013). "A presumed spelaeogriphacean crustacean from an upper Barremian wetland (Las Hoyas; Lower Cretaceous; Central Spain)". Palaeontology. 56 (1): 15–28. Bibcode: 2013Palgy..56...15J. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01144.x. ISSN 0031-0239.

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