User talk:Kevmin

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A barnstar for you!

moved --Codonified (talk) 23:11, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Austrosphecodes krampus

--Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:03, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Antiquiala

-- RoySmith (talk) 00:17, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Newly discovered species question

I am working on an article about the researcher Jill Yager at User:SL93/sandbox. She discovered the class Remipedia by finding living specimens in 1979 and described it in 1981, but another source I found adds on that the crustaceans were initially thought to have been extinct for 150 million years. I'm not sure how that is possible. SL93 (talk) 01:44, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi SL93 The Barlas source is (likely) commenting on the Enantiopodans, both of which had been described before the living species were discovered in 1979. Where Barlas got the specific age of 150 million I'm not sure, but given that he's a travel guide writer and not a paleontologist, I'm not surprised at "insert random number here" fact generation. Suffice to say the group (while not yet named) was known from Paleozoic species before the living species and order description. Brooks, 1955 was fully mystified by his †Tesnusocaris fossil and only went as far as assigning the new genus to Cephalocarida incertae sedis Schram 1974 grouped †Cryptocaris as family incertae sedis in oder Tanaidacea, suborder "Monokonophora", with no mention of †Tesnusocaris. It wasn't until ?1991? if Im reading PBDB right and its taxonomic coverage is complete, that both were identified as Remipedians and grouped in accordingly. I hope this helps a little.--Kevmin § 05:24, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

That helps. Thank you. SL93 (talk) 19:20, 15 January 2025 (UTC)