Gorgonophontidae
Family of crustaceans
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Gorgonophontidae is a family of fossil mantis shrimps which lived from the Moscovian to Gzhelian stages of the Carboniferous period. It was erected in 2007 as a monotypic group by Frederick Schram to contain only the type genus Gorgonophontes (which it is named after).[1] A second genus, Chabardella, was assigned to the family in 2009.[2] Fossils of gorgonophontids have been found in France, Belgium and the United States. The family may be polyphyletic.[3]
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| 3D reconstruction of Gorgonophontes fraiponti | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Stomatopoda |
| Suborder: | †Archaeostomatopodea |
| Family: | †Gorgonophontidae Schram, 2007 |
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