Biology:Cretatrizocheles

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Short description: Extinct genus of crustaceans

Cretatrizocheles
Temporal range: Albian–Cenomanian
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Pylochelidae
Genus: Cretatrizocheles
Species:
C. olazagutiensis
Binomial name
Cretatrizocheles olazagutiensis
Fraaije et al., 2012

Cretatrizocheles olazagutiensis is an extinct hermit crab which existed during the Albian or Cenomanian of what is now Spain . It was described by René H.B. Fraaije, Adiël A. Klompmaker and Pedro Artal in 2012, and is the only species in the genus Cretatrizocheles.[1]

References

  1. René H.B. Fraaije, Adiël A. Klompmaker & Pedro Artal (2012). "New species, genera and a family of hermit crabs (Crustacea, Anomura, Paguroidea) from a mid-Cretaceous reef of Navarra, northern Spain". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 263 (1): 85–92. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2012/0213. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5184720 entry