Tauricornicaris

{{Short description|Extinct genus of arthropods}}

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| taxon = Tauricornicaris

| authority = Zeng, Zhao, Yin & Zhu, 2017

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = * T. latizonae Zeng, Zhao, Yin & Zhu, 2017

• T. oxygonae Zeng, Zhao, Yin & Zhu, 2017

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Tauricornicaris is a giant arthropod from the Maotianshan Shales whose fossils were previously interpreted as a hurdiid radiodont ,but are now interpreted as arthropod tergites .{{Cite journal |last=Cong |first=Pei-Yun |last2=Edgecombe |first2=Gregory D. |last3=Daley |first3=Allison C. |last4=Guo |first4=Jin |last5=Pates |first5=Stephen |last6=Hou |first6=Xian-Guang |date=2018 |title=New radiodonts with gnathobase-like structures from the Cambrian Chengjiang biota and implications for the systematics of Radiodonta |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1219 |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |language=en |volume=4 |issue=4 |pages=605–621 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1219 |issn=2056-2802}} It somewhat resembles Zhenghecaris, which contributed to the latter’s reassignment within Hurdiidae. However, as Tauricornicaris is no longer a hurdiid this in turn makes Zhenghecaris's placement uncertain.{{cite journal |last1=Zeng |first1=Han |last2=Zhao |first2=Fangchen |last3=Yin |first3=Zongjun |last4=Zhu |first4=Maoyan |title=Morphology of diverse radiodontan head sclerites from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, south-west China |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |date=2 January 2018 |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=1–37 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2016.1263685}}{{Cite journal |last=Guo |first=Jin |last2=Pates |first2=Stephen |last3=Cong |first3=Peiyun |last4=Daley |first4=Allison C. |last5=Edgecombe |first5=Gregory D. |last6=Chen |first6=Taimin |last7=Hou |first7=Xianguang |date=2019 |title=A new radiodont (stem Euarthropoda) frontal appendage with a mosaic of characters from the Cambrian (Series 2 Stage 3) Chengjiang biota |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1231 |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |language=en |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=99–110 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1231 |issn=2056-2802}}{{Cite web |title=ZooBank.org |url=https://zoobank.org/References/D0590390-A85A-493A-8529-B2DF64D91169 |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=zoobank.org |language=en-us}}