Eryma

Eryma
Temporal range:
Eryma mandelslohi specimen on display at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: †Erymidae
Genus: †
von Meyer, 1840

Eryma is a genus of fossil lobster-like crustaceans, containing 44 species.[1] The oldest known species was discovered in non-marine deposits from the late Triassic Chinle Formation located in the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona.[2] Two other species were discovered in the Solnhofen Limestone in Germany.

References

  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. ^ Miller, Gary L.; Ash, Sydney R. (1988). "The Oldest Freshwater Decapod Crustacean, From The Triassic Of Arizona" (PDF). Paleontology. 31, Part 2: 273–279. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
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