Cycleryon
Appearance
Cycleryon Temporal range:
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Cycleryon propinquus from Germany, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Family: | †Eryonidae |
Genus: | †Cycleryon Glaessner, 1965 |
Type species | |
†Macrourites propinquus von Schlotheim, 1822
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Species[1] | |
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Cycleryon is an extinct genus of decapod crustaceans. The type species is Cycleryon propinquus.[2]
These epifaunal carnivores lived during the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) of Germany and France.[1]
References
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- ^ a b Audo, D.; Charbonnier, S.; Schweigert, G.; Saint Martin, J.-P. (2014). "New eryonid crustaceans from the Late Jurassic Lagerstätten of Cerin (France), Canjuers (France), Wattendorf (Germany) and Zandt (Germany)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 12 (4): 459–479. doi:10.1080/14772019.2013.777809. S2CID 128805162.
- ^ Decapoda: Eryonoidea