Eryma
Appearance
Eryma Temporal range:
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Eryma mandelslohi specimen on display at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Family: | †Erymidae |
Genus: | †Eryma von Meyer, 1840 |
Eryma is a genus of fossil lobster-like crustaceans, containing 44 species.[1] Two were preserved in the Solnhofen Limestone in Germany. 42 rest of them were found worldwide oldest to youngest between the Jurassic.
References
[edit]- ^ Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
External links
[edit]- Media related to Eryma at Wikimedia Commons