Aeger

<i>Aeger</i>

Aeger

Extinct genus of crustaceans

For the king of the sea in Norse mythology, see Ægir.

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]

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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]
    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.
  2. [2]
    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.
  3. [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. Bibcode:2022JPal...96.1235S. doi:10.1017/jpa.2022.34. S2CID 249448157.
  4. [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. S2CID 130586283.


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