Acinocricus
| Acinocricus Temporal range: | |
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| Holotype specimen on display at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Panarthropoda |
| Phylum: | †"Lobopodia" |
| Family: | †Luolishaniidae |
| Genus: | †Acinocricus Conway-Morris & Robison, 1988 |
| Species: | †A. stichus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Acinocricus stichus Conway-Morris & Robison, 1988 | |
Acinocricus is a genus of extinct panarthropod belonging to the group Lobopodia and known from the middle Cambrian Spence Shale of Utah, United States. As a monotypic genus, it has one species Acinocricus stichus. The only lobopodian discovered from the Spence Shale, it was described by Simon Conway Morris and Richard A. Robison in 1988. Owing to the original fragmentary fossils discovered since 1982, it was initially classified as an alga, but later realised to be an animal belonging to Cambrian fauna.