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Cycleryon
Temporal range: Jurassic [1]
Cycleryon propinquus from Germany, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: †Eryonidae
Genus: †Cycleryon
Glaessner, 1965

Cycleryon is an extinct genus of decapod crustaceans. The type species is Cycleryon propinquus.[2]

These epifaunal carnivores lived during the Jurassic of Germany and France, from 164.7 to 161.2 Ma.[1][3]

Species

  • Cycleryon elongatus Munster, 1839
  • Cycleryon orbiculatus Munster, 1839
  • Cycleryon propinquus Schlotheim, 1822
  • Cycleryon wulfi Garassino and Schweigert, 2004

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References

  1. ^ a b c The Paleobiology Database
  2. ^ Decapoda: Eryonoidea
  3. ^ Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database - Malacostraca
Cycleryon orbiculatus
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