Distaeger

Distaeger Temporal range: Middle Triassic PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil of D. prodigiosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Dendrobranchiata
Family:	† Aegeridae
Genus:	† Distaeger Schweitzer et al., 2014 [1]
Species
†D. prodigiosus

Distaeger is a genus of fossil prawns first described from the Luoping biota of the middle Triassic of China. ^[1] It includes one species, D. prodigiosus. The taxonomy of this species is disputed and it has been suggested that it should not be included in the family Aegeridae, but still be included somewhere in Penaeoidea in an unspecified different family. ^[2]

References

1. Schweitzer, Carrie E.; Feldmann, Rodney M.; Hu, Shixue; Huang, Jinyuan; Zhou, Changyong; Zhang, Qiyue; Wen, Wen; Xie, Tao (May 2014). "Penaeoid Decapoda (Dendrobranchiata) from the Luoping Biota (Middle Triassic) of China: Systematics and Taphonomic Framework" . Journal of Paleontology. 88 (3): 457–474. doi:10.1666/13-039. S2CID   128636280 . Retrieved 14 March 2023.
2. 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.