Jeholops
{{Short description|Genus of small freshwater animals}}
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{{Taxobox
| name = Jeholops hongi
| fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Barremian}}
| image = Jeholops_Chenops.jpg
| image_caption = Jeholops (left), Chenops {right}
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| subphylum = Crustacea
| classis = Branchiopoda
| ordo = Notostraca
| genus = Jeholops
| genus_authority = Hegna & Ren, 2010
| species = J. hongi
| binomial = Jeholops hongi
| binomial_authority = Hegna & Ren, 2010
}}
Jeholops is an extinct genus of notostracan which existed in the Yixian Formation, inner Mongolia, China during the early Cretaceous period (Barremian age).{{cite journal |author=Thomas A. Hegna |author2=Ren Dong |year=2010 |title=Two new "notostracans", Chenops gen. nov. and Jeholops gen. nov. (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: ?Notostraca) from the Yixian Formation, Northeastern China |journal=Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition |volume=84 |issue=4 |pages=886–894 |doi=10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00232.x|bibcode=2010AcGlS..84..886H |s2cid=85023596 }} It was described by Thomas A. Hegna and Ren Dong in 2010, and the only species is Jeholops hongi.
As with the genus Chenops, and unlike the modern genera Triops or Lepidurus, Jeholops lacked eyes.
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Category:Monotypic Branchiopoda genera
Category:Prehistoric crustacean genera
Category:Early Cretaceous crustaceans
Category:Fossil taxa described in 2010
Category:Early Cretaceous arthropods of Asia
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