Acanthochirana

Acanthochirana Temporal range: Jurassic PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Acanthochirana cordata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Dendrobranchiata
Family:	† Aegeridae
Genus:	† Acanthochirana Strand, 1928  [1] [2]
Type species
Udora cordata Münster, 1839
Synonyms [3]
AcanthochirusOppel, 1862

Acanthochirana is an extinct genus of prawn that existed during the upper Jurassic period. ^[4] It was named by E. Strand in 1928. ^{[2] [5]} They are distinguished from the related genus Aeger by the presence of teeth on the rostrum, which are absent in Aeger. ^[6]

Species

As of 2022 ^[update] , Acanthochirana includes eight species: ^{[7] [7] [8] [9]}

• Acanthochirana angulata(Oppel, 1862)
• Acanthochirana cordata (Münster, 1839) (=A. longipesOppel, 1862) ^{[2] [7]}
• Acanthochirana krausei (Förster, 1967)
• Acanthochirana liburiansis (Garassino et al., 2014)
• Acanthochirana norica (Pinna, 1974)
• Acanthochirana smithwoodwardi (Van Straelen, 1940) (=A. cenomanicusGlaessner, 1945)
• Acanthochirana spinifera (Schweitzer et al., 2014)
• Acanthochirana triassica (Garassino et al., 2013)

References

1. Strand, E. (1928). "Miscellanea nomenclatoria zoologica et palaeontologica" [Miscellaneous geological and palaeontological nomenclature]. Archiv für Naturgeschichte . I–II (in Italian). 92A (8): 40–41.
2. De Grave, Sammy; Pentcheff, N. Dean; Ahyong, Shane T.; 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 – via the National University of Singapore.
3. 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.
4. W. Dall (1990). The Biology of the Penaeidae. Advances in marine biology. Volume 27. Academic Press. ISBN   978-0-12-026127-7.
5. Creepy Crawlies: Ladybugs, Lobsters & Other Amazing Arthropods . Sterling Publishing Company. 1991. p.  106. ISBN   978-0-8069-8336-3.
6. Etter, Walter (2004). "Decapod crustaceans from the Middle Jurassic Opalinus Clay of northern Switzerland, with comments on crustacean taphonomy" (PDF). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae . 97 (3): 381–392. doi:10.1007/s00015-004-1137-2.
7. Garassino, Alessandro; Schweigert, Günter; Muscio, Giuseppe (2013). "Acanthochirana triassica N. Sp. and Antrimpos Colettoi N. Sp. (Decapoda: Aegeridae, Penaeidae) From the Upper Triassic (Norian) of Northern Carnic Pre-Alps (Udine, Northeastern Italy)" (PDF). Gortania (Geologia, Paleontologia, Paletnologia). 35: 11–18. ISSN   2038-0410 – via the Civic Museum of Udine.
8. Bravi, Sergio; Garassino, Alessandro; Bartiromo, Antonello; et al. (2014). "Middle Jurassic Monte Fallano Plattenkalk (Campania, southern Italy): first report on terrestrial plants, decapod crustaceans and fishes". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie . 272 (1): 79–107. Bibcode:2014NJGPA.272...79B. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2014/0398. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-11-16 – via ResearchGate.
9. Smith, Christopher P. A.; Charbonnier, Sylvain; Jenks, James F.; Bylund, Kevin G.; Escarguel, Gilles; Olivier, Nicolas; Fara, Emmanuel; Brayard, Arnaud (2022-06-06). "The Paris Biota decapod (Arthropoda) fauna and the diversity of Triassic decapods". Journal of Paleontology. 96 (6): 1235–1263. doi:10.1017/jpa.2022.34. ISSN   0022-3360.

External links

• Acanthochirana at the Paleobiology Database
• Media related to Acanthochirana at Wikimedia Commons