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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of fossil crustaceans founded by Meek and Worthen in 1865 upon P. typus, a synthetic form, of Carboniferous age, from the North American coal-measures, subsequently giving name to an extensive group of crustaceans, the Palæocarida, which it represents.

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