Aeger

For the king of the sea in Norse mythology, see Ægir.

Aeger Temporal range: Middle Triassic–Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Aeger elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Dendrobranchiata
Superfamily:	Penaeoidea
Family:	† Aegeridae
Genus:	† Aeger Münster, 1839  [1]
Type species
Macrourites tipularius Schlotheim, 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]}

• Aeger brevirostris Van Straelen, 1923
• Aeger brodiei Woodward, 1888
• Aeger elegans Münster, 1839
• Aeger elongatus Garassino & Teruzzi, 1990
• Aeger foersteri Garassino & Teruzzi, 1990
• Aeger fraconicus Förster, 1980
• Aeger gracilis Förster & Crane, 1984
• Aeger hidalguensis Feldmann et al., 2007
• Aeger insignis Oppel, 1862
• Aeger laevis (Blake, 1876)
• Aeger lehmanni (Langenhan, 1910)
• Aeger libanensis Roger, 1946
• Aeger luxii Huang et al., 2013 ^[5]
• Aeger macropus Garassino & Teruzzi, 1990
• Aeger marderi Woodward, 1866
• Aeger muensteri Garassino & Teruzzi, 1990
• Aeger robustus Garassino & Teruzzi, 1990
• Aeger rostrospinatus Garassino & Teruzzi, 1990
• Aeger spinipes (Desmarest, 1822)
• Aeger straeleni Glaessner, 1929
• Aeger tipularius (Schlotheim, 1822) (=A. armatusOppel, 1862)

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. 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" (PDF). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum . 35: 1–14. Archived from the original (PDF) 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.