Peachocaris is a genus of extinct crustaceans in the order Lophogastrida containing at least two species. Peachocaris were small shrimp-like crustacean that lived in the shallow seas of the late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian). The species Peachocaris strongi is found in the Mazon Creek fossil beds, a carboniferous lagerstätte in Illinois.
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The genus was named by Frederick Schram in 1974. It is named after the British paleontologist Ben Peach who provided significant contributions to the early study of Carboniferous Malacostraca.[2]
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edit- ^ Frederick R. Schram (1976). Crustacea. Oxford University Press. p. 606. ISBN 0-19-503742-1.
- ^ Frederick Schram (1976). "Peachocaris, a new name for Peachella Schram, 1974, non Walcott, 1910". Journal of Paleontology. 50: 994.
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