Douglasocaris Temporal range:
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Holotype of Douglasocaris collinsi, from the Douglas Lake Member of Lenoir Limestone, at Douglas Dam, Tennessee[1] 1956. | |
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Genus: | Douglasocaris Caster & Brooks 1956<[1]
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Douglasocaris collinsi Caster & Brooks 1956
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Douglasocaris is a genus of bivalved arthropod from the Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian, 460 million years old) Douglas Lake Member of the Lenoir Limestone from Douglas Dam Tennessee.[2]
Douglasocaris has alternatively been considered a phyllocarid or a notostracan.[3]