Erymidae
Temporal range: Early Triassic–Albian
Eryma mandelslohi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Glypheidea
Superfamily: Erymoidea
Van Straelen, 1924
Family: †Erymidae
Van Straelen, 1924

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]

References

  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. ^ 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. ^ 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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