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Phyllocarida

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Phyllocarida is a subclass of crustaceans, comprising the extant order Leptostraca and the extinct orders Hymenostraca and Archaeostraca.[2] This clade of marine crustaceans diversified extensively during the Ordovician.[3]

Undescribed fossil of a very large phyllocarid from the Yukon (Devonian)

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Phyllocarida
Temporal range: 500–0 Ma
Nebalia bipes
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Subclass: Phyllocarida
Packard, 1879
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