Triops cancriformis, a living fossil

Drawing (left) of Triassic (220 MYBP) & photograph (right) of modern specimens of  tadpole shrimp, both of which are assigned to the same species (Triops cancriformis) (Notostraca: Crustacea), which is thus the oldest known species still in existence.


Text material © 2005 by Steven M. Carr