Iliella

Iliella
Temporal range:
Artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: †Kazacharthra
Family: †Ketmeniidae
Genus: †
Chernyshev, 1940 [1]
Species:
†I. spinosa
Binomial name
†Iliella spinosa
Chernyshev, 1940

Iliella spinosa is an extinct species of kazacharthran branchiopod crustaceans from the Lower Jurassic of Kazakhstan.[1] It had a unique carapace that was shaped like a spiny double-oval.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Arthropoda, Part Q


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