Tesnusocaris goldichi is an extinct species of remipedian[2] crustacean that lived in the Pennsylvanian period, the one of the two representatives of the extinct remipedian order Enantiopoda.[3] Its fossil is from the Lower Pennsylvanian (Paleozoic, Carboniferous) Tesnus formation, Texas.[1] The other known enantiopod remipedian is Cryptocaris hootchi of the Mazon Creek fauna.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Remipedia |
| Order: | †Enantiopoda |
| Family: | †Tesnusocarididae |
| Genus: | †Tesnusocaris Brooks, 1955 |
| Species: | †T. goldichi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Tesnusocaris goldichi Brooks, 1955 [1] | |