Distaeger
Appearance
Distaeger Temporal range:
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Dendrobranchiata |
Family: | †Aegeridae |
Genus: | †Distaeger Schweitzer, Feldmann, Hu, Huang, Zhou, Zhang, Wen & Xie, 2014[1] |
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Distaeger is a genus of fossil prawns first described from the Luoping biota of the middle Triassic of China.[1] It includes one species, D. prodigiosus.
References
- ^ a b Schweitzer, Carrie E.; Feldmann, Rodney M.; Hu, Shixue; Huang, Jinyuan; Zhou, Changyong; Zhang, Qiyue; Wen, Wen; Xie, Tao (May 2014). "Penaeoid Decapoda (Dendrobranchiata) from the Luoping Biota (Middle Triassic) of China: Systematics and Taphonomic Framework". Journal of Paleontology. 88 (3): 457–474. doi:10.1666/13-039. S2CID 128636280. Retrieved 14 March 2023.