Aeger
Display parents2
TaxonAeger
AuthorityMünster, 1839 [1]
Type speciesMacrourites tipularius
Type species authoritySchlotheim, 1822 [2]

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

As of 2022, this is a complete list of species in the genus.[4][5][3]

References

  1. ^ Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06.
  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". Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum. 35: 1–14. Archived from the original on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2010-01-10.
  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. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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