Peachocaris

{{Short description|Extinct genus of crustaceans}}

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{{Taxobox

| name = Peachocaris

| fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Late Carboniferous}}

| image = Peachocaris strongi.jpg

| image_alt =

| image_caption = Peachocaris strongi

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| subphylum = Crustacea

| classis = Malacostraca

| ordo = Lophogastrida

| familia = Peachocarididae

| genus = Peachocaris

| genus_authority = Schram, 1976{{cite book |ISBN=0-19-503742-1 |title=Crustacea |author=Frederick R. Schram |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1976 |pages=606}}

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• Peachocaris strongi Brooks, 1962
• Peachocaris acanthouraea Shram, 1984

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Peachocaris is a genus of extinct crustaceans in the order Lophogastrida containing at least two species. Peachocaris were small shrimp-like crustacean that lived in the shallow seas of the late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian). The species Peachocaris strongi is found in the Mazon Creek fossil beds, a carboniferous lagerstätte in Illinois.

The genus was named by Frederick Schram in 1974. It is named after the British paleontologist Ben Peach who provided significant contributions to the early study of Carboniferous Malacostraca.{{cite journal |title=Peachocaris, a new name for Peachella Schram, 1974, non Walcott, 1910 |author=Frederick Schram |author-link=Frederick Schram |journal=Journal of Paleontology |year=1976 |volume=50|pages=994}}