Waptia
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| Waptia Fossil range: Middle Cambrian |
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| Waptia fieldensis Walcott, 1912 |
Waptia fieldensis was a small, shrimp-like stem group crustacean. Many Cambrian crustaceomorphs such as Waptia lack the mouthparts to be classified as crown group crustaceans that lived during the Middle Cambrian about 510 million years ago [1][2].
[edit] References
- ^ Waptia fieldensis. University of Oslo (2001).
- ^ Stewart; Tabori, Chang (1997). The Humongous Book of Dinosaurs. London: Orbis Publishing Limited, 1206–1207. ISBN 1-55670-596-4.
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