Tardisia

Tardisia
Temporal range:
Fossils of Tardisia
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Artiopoda
(unranked): Vicissicaudata
Genus: Tardisia
McCoy et al, 2025
Species:
T. broedeae
Binomial name
Tardisia broedeae
McCoy et al, 2025

Tardisia is an extinct genus of vicissicaudatan arthropod known from the upper Carboniferous Mazon Creek fossil beds in northern Illinois. It is the youngest known member of the Artiopoda outside of the trilobites, at almost 100 million years younger than the next youngest in the Hunsrück Slate and Severnaya Zemlya Formation.