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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Dendrobranchiata |
| Superfamily: | Penaeoidea |
| Family: | †Aciculopodidae Feldmann & Schweitzer, 2010 |
| Genus: | †Aciculopoda Feldmann & Schweitzer, 2010 |
| Species: | †A. mapesi
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| †Aciculopoda mapesi Feldmann & Schweitzer, 2010
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Aciculopoda is an extinct prawn which existed in what is now Oklahoma approximately 360 million years ago. It was described in 2010 on the basis of a single fossil from Oklahoma. The single species, Aciculopoda mapesi, was named by Rodney Feldmann and Carrie Schweitzer in honour of Royal Mapes, a paleontologist who discovered the type specimen.[1][2] It is only the third unambiguous fossil decapod from before the Mesozoic.[1]
- ^ a b Rodney Feldmann & Carrie Schweitzer (2010). "The oldest shrimp (Devonian: Famennian) and remarkable preservation of soft tissue". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 30 (4): 629–635. doi:10.1651/09-3268.1.
- ^ "Oldest fossilized shrimp: geologists study rare well-preserved creature showing muscles". Science Daily. November 10, 2010. Retrieved November 13, 2010.