Gampsurus

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Gampsurus
Temporal range: Campanian
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Gampsurus
Von der Marck, 1863
Species:
G. dubius
Binomial name
Gampsurus dubius

Gampsurus is an extinct genus of shrimp in the order Decapoda. It existed in Germany during the Campanian stage of the Cretaceous period. [2] It contains a single species, [3] Gampsurus dubius.

References

  1. "PBDB".
  2. Frederick R. Schram (1986). Crustacea. Oxford University Press. p. 272. ISBN   978-0-19-503742-5.
  3. 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.