Biology:Aeger

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Short description: Extinct genus of crustaceans

Aeger
Temporal range: Middle Triassic–Cretaceous
Aeger elegans fossil.jpg
Aeger elegans
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Dendrobranchiata
Superfamily: Penaeoidea
Family: Aegeridae
Genus: Aeger
Münster, 1839 [1]
Type species
Macrourites tipularius
Schlotheim, 1822 [2]

Aeger is a genus of fossil prawns. They first occur in the Early Triassic (Paris biota),[3] and died out at the end of the Late Cretaceous.[2] A total of 21 species are known.[1]

Species

  • Aeger brevirostris
  • Aeger brodiei
  • Aeger elegans
  • Aeger elongatus
  • Aeger foersteri
  • Aeger fraconicus
  • Aeger gracilis
  • Aeger hidalguensis
  • Aeger insignis
  • Aeger laevis
  • Aeger lehmanni
  • Aeger libanensis
  • Aeger luxii[4]
  • Aeger macropus
  • Aeger marderi
  • Aeger muensteri
  • Aeger robustus
  • Aeger rostrospinatus
  • Aeger spinipes
  • Aeger straeleni
  • Aeger tipularius

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Sammy De Grave et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064728/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Carrie E. Schweitzer; Rodney M. Feldmann; Iuliana Lažar (2009). "Fossil Crustacea (excluding Cirripedia and Ostracoda) in the University of Bucharest Collections, Romania, including two new species". Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 35: 1–14. http://www.city.mizunami.gifu.jp/odocs/sightseeing/mizunami/cultural_property/institution/bull35/pdf/01.pdf. Retrieved 2010-01-10. 
  3. Smith, Christopher P. A.; Charbonnier, Sylvain; Jenks, James F.; Bylund, Kevin G.; Escarguel, Gilles; Olivier, Nicolas; Fara, Emmanuel; Brayard, Arnaud (2022). "The Paris Biota decapod (Arthropoda) fauna and the diversity of Triassic decapods". Journal of Paleontology 96 (6): 1235–1263. doi:10.1017/jpa.2022.34. Bibcode2022JPal...96.1235S. https://mnhn.hal.science/mnhn-03812429. 
  4. Huang, Jinyuan; Feldmann, Rodney M.; Schweitzer, Carrie E. et al. (July 2013). "A new shrimp (Decapoda, Dendrobranchiata, Penaeoidea) from the Middle Triassic of Yunnan, southwest China". Journal of Paleontology 87 (4): 603–611. doi:10.1666/13-024. 

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