Palaeocuma

Palaeocuma; Temporal range: Callovian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Cumacea
Genus:	Palaeocuma; Bachmayer, 1960
Species:	P. hessi
Binomial name
	Palaeocuma hessi; Bachmayer, 1960

Palaeocuma hessi is an extinct species of cumacean, the only species in the genus Palaeocuma, and one of very few fossil cumaceans ever discovered. It lived in the Callovian age (Middle Jurassic) in France.^[1]

References

^ Frederick R. Schram; Cees H. J. Hof; Royal H. Mapes; Polly Snowdon (2003). "Paleozoic cumaceans (Crustacea, Malacostraca, Peracarida) from North America". Contributions to Zoology. 72 (1): 1–16. doi:10.1163/18759866-07201001.

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[1] Frederick R. Schram; Cees H. J. Hof; Royal H. Mapes; Polly Snowdon (2003). "Paleozoic cumaceans (Crustacea, Malacostraca, Peracarida) from North America". Contributions to Zoology. 72 (1): 1–16. doi:10.1163/18759866-07201001.

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