Hoplocarida is a
subclass of
crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group can ...
s. The only
extant members are the
mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda), but two other orders existed in the
Palaeozoic:
Aeschronectida
Aeschronectida is an extinct order of mantis shrimp-like crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapoda, decapods, ostracoda, seed shrimp, branchiopoda, branchiopods, argulida ...
and
Palaeostomatopoda.
References
Malacostraca
Arthropod subclasses
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