Coleia

<i>Coleia</i>

Coleia

Extinct genus of crustaceans

Coleia is an extinct genus of decapods in the group Polychelida that lived from the Late Triassic to the Late Jurassic.[1] It was described by Broderip in 1835, and the type species is C. antiqua. A new species, C. martinlutheri, which existed during the Sinemurian of what is now Germany, was described by Günter Schweigert and Werner Ernst in 2012.[2]

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Species

  • Coleia antiqua Broderip, 1835
  • Coleia barrovensis McCoy, 1849
  • Coleia boboi Garassino & Gironi, 2006
  • Coleia bredonensis Woods, 1925
  • Coleia brodiei Woodward, 1866
  • Coleia crassichelis Woodward, 1866
  • Coleia edwardsi Moriere, 1864
  • Coleia gigantea (Van Straelen, 1923)
  • Coleia incerta Secretan, 1964
  • Coleia longipes Fraas, 1855
  • Coleia martinlutheri Schweigert & Ernst, 2012
  • Coleia mediterranea Pinna, 1968
  • Coleia moorei Woodward, 1866
  • Coleia morierei Renault, 1889
  • Coleia pinnai Teruzzi, 1990
  • Coleia popeyei Teruzzi, 1990
  • Coleia sibirica Chernyschev, 1930
  • Coleia sinuata Beurlen, 1928
  • Coleia tenuichelis Woods, 1925
  • Coleia theodorii Kuhn, 1952
  • Coleia uzume Karasawa, 2003
  • Coleia viallii Pinna, 1968
  • Coleia wilmcotensis Woodward, 1866

References

  1. [1]
    Hiroaki Karasawa; Fumio Takahashi; Eiji Doi; Hideo Ishida (2003). "First notice of the family Coleiidae Van Straelen (Crustacea: Decapoda: Eryonoidea) from the upper Triassic of Japan" (PDF). Paleontological Research. 7 (4): 357–362. doi:10.2517/prpsj.7.357. S2CID 129330859.
  2. [2]
    Günter Schweigert; Werner Ernst (2012). "First record of a polychelid lobster (Crustacea: Decapoda: Coleiidae) from the Sinemurian (Early Jurassic) of Germany". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. 263 (1): 35–42. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2012/0207.


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