Alcmonacaris

Alcmonacaris; Temporal range: Upper Jurassic PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Infraorder:	Caridea
Family:	incertae sedis
Genus:	Alcmonacaris; Polz, 2009
Species:	A. winkleri
Binomial name
	Alcmonacaris winkleri; Polz, 2009

Last updated March 26, 2025

Alcmonacaris winkleri is an extinct Late Jurassic species of shrimp in its own genus, Alcmonacaris, which cannot yet be placed in a family.^[2] It was described in 2009 from a specimen in the Solnhofen limestone.

References

↑ Hermann Polz (2009). "Alcmonacaris winkleri g. nov. sp. nov. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pleocyemata: Caridea) aus den Solnhofener Plattenkalken von Eichstätt". Archaeopteryx . 26: 1–9.
↑ 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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[1] Hermann Polz (2009). "Alcmonacaris winkleri g. nov. sp. nov. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pleocyemata: Caridea) aus den Solnhofener Plattenkalken von Eichstätt". Archaeopteryx . 26: 1–9.

[Grave-2] 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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