Erymidae

Erymidae

Erymidae

Extinct family of crustaceans

Erymidae is a family of decapod crustaceans known only from fossils. They survived for 100 million years, from the Permo-Triassic boundary to the Albian.[1][2] Eleven genera are recognised:[3]

  • Clytiella Glaessner, 1931 – 1 species
  • Clytiopsis Bill, 1914 – 3 species
  • Enoploclytia M’Coy, 1849 – 20 species
  • Eryma Von Meyer, 1840 – 44 species
  • Galicia Garassino & Krobicki, 2002 – 3 species
  • Lissocardia Von Meyer, 1851 – 3 species
  • Palaeastacus Bell, 1850 – 24 species
  • Paraclytiopsis Oravec, 1962 – 1 species
  • Protoclytiopsis Birshtein, 1958 – 1 species
  • Pustulina Quenstedt, 1857 – 12 species
  • Stenodactylina Beurlen, 1928 – 1 species

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References

  1. [1]
    Reinhard Forster (1985). "Evolutionary trends and ecology of Mesozoic decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 76 (2–3): 299–304. Bibcode:1985EESTR..76..299F. doi:10.1017/s0263593300010518. S2CID 52232092.
  2. [2]
    Garassino, A.; Pasini, G.; Nyborg, T.; Haggart, J. W. (2021). "Report of new lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) of Haida Gwaii Archipelago, Canada". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 301 (2): 201–216. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2021/1009. S2CID 238730142.
  3. [3]
    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.


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