Coleia

Coleia
Temporal range: Late Triassic–Late Jurassic
Coleia longipes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: †Coleiidae
Genus: †Coleia
Broderip, 1835
Type species
Coleia antiqua
Broderip, 1835

Coleia is an extinct genus of decapods in the group Polychelida that lived from the Late Triassic to the Late Jurassic.[1] It was described by Broderip in 1835, and the type species is C. antiqua. A new species, C. martinlutheri, which existed during the Sinemurian of what is now Germany, was described by Günter Schweigert and Werner Ernst in 2012.[2]

Species

References

  1. ^ Hiroaki Karasawa; Fumio Takahashi; Eiji Doi; Hideo Ishida (2003). "First notice of the family Coleiidae Van Straelen (Crustacea: Decapoda: Eryonoidea) from the upper Triassic of Japan" (PDF). Paleontological Research. 7 (4): 357–362. doi:10.2517/prpsj.7.357. S2CID 129330859.
  2. ^ Günter Schweigert; Werner Ernst (2012). "First record of a polychelid lobster (Crustacea: Decapoda: Coleiidae) from the Sinemurian (Early Jurassic) of Germany". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. 263 (1): 35–42. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2012/0207.


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