Eryma

Eryma Temporal range: Permian–Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Eryma mandelslohi specimen on display at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Family:	† Erymidae
Genus:	† Eryma von Meyer, 1840

Eryma is a genus of fossil lobster-like crustaceans, containing 44 species. ^[1] The oldest known species was discovered in non-marine deposits from the late Triassic Chinle Formation located in the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. ^[2] Two other species were discovered in the Solnhofen Limestone in Germany.

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. Miller, Gary L.; Ash, Sydney R. (1988). "The Oldest Freshwater Decapod Crustacean, From The Triassic Of Arizona" (PDF). Palaeontology. 31, Part 2: 273–279. Retrieved 6 July 2025.

External links

• Media related to Eryma at Wikimedia Commons