Houcaris

Houcaris is a genus of tamisiocarididid radiodonts known from Cambrian Series 2 of China and the United States. It contains two species, Houcaris saron and Houcaris magnabasis, both of which were originally named as species of the related genus Anomalocaris.[1][2] The genus Houcaris was established for the two species in 2021 and honors Hou Xianguang, who had discovered and named the type species H. saron in 1995 along with his colleagues Jan Bergström and Per E. Ahlberg.[3]

Houcaris
Temporal range:
Frontal appendage of H. saron
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: †Dinocaridida
Order: †Radiodonta
Family: †Tamisiocarididae
Genus: †Houcaris
Wu, Fu, Ma, Lin, Sun, & Zhang, 2021
Type species
Houcaris saron
(Hou, Bergström, & Ahlberg, 1995)
Referred species
  • †Houcaris magnabasis (Pates, Daley, Edgecombe, Cong, & Lieberman, 2019)

References
  1. Wu, Yu; Fu, Dongjing; Ma, Jiaxin; Lin, Weiliang; Sun, Ao; Zhang, Xingliang (2021). "Houcaris gen. nov. from the early Cambrian (Stage 3) Chengjiang Lagerstätte expanded the palaeogeographical distribution of tamisiocaridids (Panarthropoda: Radiodonta)". PalZ. doi:10.1007/s12542-020-00545-4. ISSN 1867-6812.
  2. Pates, Stephen; Daley, Allison C.; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Cong, Peiyun; Lieberman, Bruce S. (2019). Xi‐Guang Zhang (ed.). "Systematics, preservation and biogeography of radiodonts from the southern Great Basin, USA, during the upper Dyeran (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4)". Papers in Palaeontology: –2.1277. doi:10.1002/spp2.1277. ISSN 2056-2802.
  3. Hou, Xian-Guang; Bergström, Jan; Ahlberg, Per (1995). "Anomalocaris and other large animals in the lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna of southwest China". GFF. 117 (3): 163–183. doi:10.1080/11035899509546213. ISSN 1103-5897.
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