Skaracarida Explained

Skara is a genus of maxillopod crustacean known from the Upper Cambrian Orsten deposit of Sweden and similarly aged deposits in China.[1] It is the only genus in the order Skaracarida and family Skaraidae, and contains three species:[2]

The feeding system of Skara resembles those of copepods and Derocheilocaris, and the three taxa are accordingly grouped together as the clade Copepodoida.[3] Skara is likely to have scraped or brushed the substrate to release food.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Liu Jie . Dong Xiping . amp . 2007 . Skara hunanensis a new species of Skaracarida (Crustacea) from Upper Cambrian (Furongian) of Human, south China . . 17 . 8 . 934–942 . 10.1080/10002007088537494.
  2. Web site: Skaracarida Müller & Walossek, 1985 . February 25, 2008 . Centre of 'Orsten' Research and Exploration . October 13, 2013.
  3. Joachim T. Haug . Jørgen Olesen . Andreas Maas . Dieter Waloszek . amp . 2011 . External morphology and post-embryonic development of Derocheilocaris remanei (Mystacocarida) revisited, with a comparison to the Cambrian taxon Skara . . 31 . 4 . 668–692 . 10.1651/11-3481.1. free .
  4. Mats E. Eriksson . Fredrik Terfelt . Rolf Elofsson . Federica Marone . amp . 2012 . Internal soft-tissue anatomy of Cambrian 'Orsten' arthropods as revealed by synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy . . 7 . 8 . e42582 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0042582 . 22870334 . 3411623 . 2012PLoSO...742582E . free .

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