Forfexicaris

{{Short description|Extinct genus of arthropods}}

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| image = Forfexicaris valida Hou.png

| image_caption = Fossil drawing

| image2 = Forfexicaris_valida.jpg

| image2_caption = Reconstruction

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Cambrian Stage 3}}

| grandparent_authority = Hou, 1999

| parent_authority = Hou, 1999

| taxon = Forfexicaris valida

| authority = Hou, 1999 {{cite journal |author=Hou Xian-Guang |year=1999 |title=New rare bivalved arthropods from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna, Yunnan, China |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=73 |issue=1 |pages=102–116 |doi=10.1017/S002233600002758X |jstor=1306748|bibcode=1999JPal...73..102X |s2cid=88183296 }}

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Forfexicaris valida is a species of Lower Cambrian arthropod, the only species in the family Forfexicarididae. It is known from only two specimens from the Maotianshan shale {{Lang|de|Lagerstätte}}.{{cite book |author1=Hou Xian-Guang |author2=Richard J. Aldridge |author3=Jan Bergström |author4=David L. Siveter |author5=Derek J. Siveter |author6=Feng Xiang-Hong |year=2004 |title=The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China: The Flowering of Early Animal Life |publisher=Blackwell |isbn=978-1-4051-0673-3 |chapter=Genus Forfexicaris Hou, 1999 |page=132 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QOIFgqC4X_sC&pg=PA132}}