Wisangocaris

Wisangocaris; Temporal range:
	Life restoration feeding on the trilobite Estaingia bilobata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Order:	†Habeliida
Family:	†Sanctacarididae
Genus:	†Wisangocaris
Species:	†W. barbarahardyae
Binomial name
	†Wisangocaris barbarahardyae; Jago et al 2016

Wisangocaris is an extinct genus of Cambrian arthropod known from the Emu Bay Shale of Australia.[1] Due to the fact that trilobite fragments have been found in its stomach, it was probably durophagous. It been placed in the family Sanctacarididae alongside Sanctacaris as stem-group chelicerates.[2]

References

Jago, James B.; García-Bellido, Diego C.; Gehling, James G. (2016). "An early Cambrian chelicerate from the Emu Bay Shale, South Australia". Palaeontology. 59 (4): 549–562. doi:10.1111/pala.12243.
Aria C, Caron JB (December 2017). "Mandibulate convergence in an armoured Cambrian stem chelicerate". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (1): 261. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-1088-7. PMC 5738823. PMID 29262772.

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[1] Jago, James B.; García-Bellido, Diego C.; Gehling, James G. (2016). "An early Cambrian chelicerate from the Emu Bay Shale, South Australia". Palaeontology. 59 (4): 549–562. doi:10.1111/pala.12243.

[Aria_2017-2] Aria C, Caron JB (December 2017). "Mandibulate convergence in an armoured Cambrian stem chelicerate". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (1): 261. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-1088-7. PMC 5738823. PMID 29262772.