Eryma

Eryma
Temporal range: Permian–Cretaceous
Eryma mandelslohi specimen on display at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart
Scientific classification Edit this 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

  1. ^ 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.
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