Aeger
Appearance
| Aeger Temporal range:
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|---|---|
| Aeger elegans | |
| Scientific classification | |
| 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]
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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, which makes this the most diverse genus in the family Aegeridae.[1][3]
Species
[edit]As of 2022, this is a complete list of species in the genus.[4][5][3]
- Aeger brevirostris Van Straelen, 1923
- Aeger brodiei Woodward, 1888
- Aeger elegans Münster, 1839
- Aeger elongatus Garassino & Teruzzi, 1990
- Aeger foersteri Garassino & Teruzzi, 1990
- Aeger fraconicus Förster, 1980
- Aeger gracilis Förster & Crane, 1984
- Aeger hidalguensis Feldmann et al., 2007
- Aeger insignis Oppel, 1862
- Aeger laevis (Blake, 1876)
- Aeger lehmanni (Langenhan, 1910)
- Aeger libanensis Roger, 1946
- Aeger luxii Huang et al., 2013[5]
- Aeger macropus Garassino & Teruzzi, 1990
- Aeger marderi Woodward, 1866
- Aeger muensteri Garassino & Teruzzi, 1990
- Aeger robustus Garassino & Teruzzi, 1990
- Aeger rostrospinatus Garassino & Teruzzi, 1990
- Aeger spinipes (Desmarest, 1822)
- Aeger straeleni Glaessner, 1929
- Aeger tipularius (Schlotheim, 1822) (=A. armatus Oppel, 1862)
References
[edit]- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b 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" (PDF). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum. 35: 1–14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2010-01-10.
- ^ a b c 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. Bibcode:2022JPal...96.1235S. doi:10.1017/jpa.2022.34. S2CID 249448157.
- ^ Schweitzer, Carrie; Feldmann, Rodney; Garassino, Alessandro; Karasawa, Hiroaki; Schweigert, Günter (2010-01-07). Systematic List of Fossil Decapod Crustacean Species. BRILL. doi:10.1163/ej.9789004178915.i-222. ISBN 978-90-474-4126-7.
- ^ a b 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. S2CID 130586283.