Pleopteryx

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Pleopteryx
Temporal range: Late Jurassic (Tithonian) [1]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Superfamily:† Pleopteryxoidea
Schweigert & Garassino, 2004
Family:† Pleopteryxidae
Schweigert & Garassino, 2004
Genus:† Pleopteryx
Schweigert & Garassino, 2004 [1]
Species:
†P. kuempeli
Binomial name
†Pleopteryx kuempeli
Schweigert & Garassino, 2004 [2]

Pleopteryx is an extinct genus of true shrimp in the family Pleopteryxidae [2] , of which it is also the sole member. It lived in what is now modern day Bavaria during the Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic Epoch. [1]

Its type and only species is Pleopteryx kuempeli. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Pleopteryx in the Paleobiology Database
  2. 1 2 3 "Pleopteryx Schweigert & Garassino, 2006 †". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species.

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