Jilinicaris is an extinct genus of crustacean in the order Decapoda,[2] and is the earliest fossil assigned to the Stenopodidea, having been found in rocks of Late Cretaceous age.[3]
| Jilinicaris Temporal range: [1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Family: | Spongicolidae |
| Genus: | Jilinicaris |
| Species: | J. chinensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Jilinicaris chinensis Schram, Shen, Vonk & Taylor, 2000
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References
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- ^ 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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