Tricarina

Tricarina is an extinct genus of crustaceans in order Isopoda, known from a single incomplete fossil specimen from the Cretaceous of western Iran. It has a flattened body with three longitudinal ridges, which give it its name.

Tricarina
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Superorder: Peracarida
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Sphaeromatidea
Superfamily: Seroloidea
Family: Tricarinidae
Feldmann et al., 2007
Genus: Tricarina
Feldmann et al., 2007
Species:
T. gadvanensis
Binomial name
Tricarina gadvanensis
Feldmann et al., 2007
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