Alcmonacaris

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Alcmonacaris
Temporal range: Upper Jurassic
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Alcmonacaris

Polz, 2009
Species:
A. winkleri
Binomial name
Alcmonacaris winkleri
Polz, 2009  [1]

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.

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References

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