Jilinicaris

Jilinicaris chinensis; Temporal range: Late Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Infraorder:	Stenopodidea
Family:	Spongicolidae
Genus:	Jilinicaris; Schram, Shen, Vonk & Taylor, 2000
Species:	J. chinensis
Binomial name
	Jilinicaris chinensis; Schram, Shen, Vonk & Taylor, 2000

Jilinicaris is an extinct genus of crustacean in the order Decapoda,[1] and is the earliest fossil assigned to the Stenopodidea, having been found in rocks of Late Cretaceous age.[2]

References

Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
Frederick R. Shram; Shen Yanbin; Ronald Vonk; Rodney S. Taylor (2000). "The first fossil stenopodidean". Crustaceana. 73 (2): 235–242. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.611.5275. doi:10.1163/156854000504183.

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[Grave-1] Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.

[2] Frederick R. Shram; Shen Yanbin; Ronald Vonk; Rodney S. Taylor (2000). "The first fossil stenopodidean". Crustaceana. 73 (2): 235–242. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.611.5275. doi:10.1163/156854000504183.