Caryosyntrips Temporal range: Cambrian Series 3–Middle Cambrian |
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Appendages | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Class: | †Dinocaridida |
Order: | †Radiodonta |
Family: | †Anomalocarididae |
Genus: | †Caryosyntrips |
Species: | †C. serratus |
Binomial name | |
Caryosyntrips serratus Daley & Budd, 2010 |
Caryosyntrips is an extinct genus of anomalocaridid which existed in Canada, during the middle Cambrian. Caryosyntrips is known only from a handful of 12-segmented appendages, which resemble nut-crackers, recovered from the Burgess Shale Formation. It was first named by Allison C. Daley, Graham E. Budd in 2010 and the type species is Caryosyntrips serratus.