Wisangocaris is an extinct genus of Cambrian arthropod known from the Emu Bay Shale of Australia.[1] Due to the fact that trilobite fragments have been found in its stomach, it was probably durophagous. It been placed in the family Sanctacarididae alongside Sanctacaris as stem-group chelicerates.[2]
| Wisangocaris Temporal range:
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| Life restoration feeding on the trilobite Estaingia bilobata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Order: | †Habeliida |
| Family: | †Sanctacarididae |
| Genus: | †Wisangocaris |
| Species: | †W. barbarahardyae
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| Binomial name | |
| †Wisangocaris barbarahardyae Jago et al 2016
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References edit
- ^ Jago, James B.; García-Bellido, Diego C.; Gehling, James G. (2016). "An early Cambrian chelicerate from the Emu Bay Shale, South Australia". Palaeontology. 59 (4): 549–562. Bibcode:2016Palgy..59..549J. doi:10.1111/pala.12243.
- ^ Aria C, Caron JB (December 2017). "Mandibulate convergence in an armoured Cambrian stem chelicerate". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (1): 261. Bibcode:2017BMCEE..17..261A. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-1088-7. PMC 5738823. PMID 29262772.
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