phyllocaridanadj.n.
/ˌfɪlə(ʊ)ˈkarᵻd(ə)n/, U.S. /ˌfɪləˈkɛrəd(ə)n/ Zoology.
A. adj.
= phyllocarid adj.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [adjective] > belonging to Phyllopoda > relating to Branchiopoda > of member of
branchiopod1826
phyllocaridan1882
phyllocarid1892
1882 A. S. Packard in Amer. Naturalist 16 870 He [sc. Claus] failed to appreciate the independent, synthetic nature of the Phyllocaridan type.
1886 Amer. Naturalist 20 1066 Packard describes..the feet in Cryptozoe, a new genus of fossil Phyllocaridan crustacean, allied to Nebalia.
1974 Systematic Zool. 23 330/2 The Late Paleozoic radiation..is part of a continuity connecting the early Paleozoic phyllocaridan radiation to the Mesozoic-Cenozoic one.
1999 Amer. Zoologist (Nexis) 39 199 The heart itself sends an artery directly to each of the thoracic and abdominal appendages in the phyllocaridan leptostracans and some hoplocarids.
B. n.
= phyllocarid n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Entomostraca > order Phyllopoda > suborder Branchiopoda > member of
branchiopod1826
phyllocaridan1886
phyllocarid1893
1886 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 23 380 (heading) Discovery of the thoracic feet in a Carboniferous phyllocaridan.
1977 Systematic Zool. 26 368/2 One assemblage is nearshore marine, largely Lower Carboniferous, and is composed of hoplostracan phyllocaridans..pygocephalomorph peracarid eumalacostracans.
1994 E. E. Ruppert & R. D. Barnes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 6) xiv. 751/1 The earliest known malacostracans were phyllocaridans and appeared in the Cambrian period.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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