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Carpopenaeus

Carpopenaeus is an extinct genus of prawn, which existed during the Upper Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. It contains three species.

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Carpopenaeus
Temporal range:
Carpopenaeus callirostris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Dendrobranchiata
Superfamily: Penaeoidea
Family: Carpopenaeidae
Garassino, 1994
Genus: Carpopenaeus
Glaessner, 1946
Species
  • Carpopenaeus callirostris
  • Carpopenaeus peterbuergeri
  • Carpopenaeus septemspintus

Carpopenaeus is an extinct genus of prawn, which existed during the Upper Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.12 It contains three species.23

References

References

  1. Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, Volume 2, by Raymond Cecil Moore, Curt Teichert, Joint Committee on Invertebrate Paleontology, Geological Society of America. Published 1953.
  2. Günther Schweigert; Alessandro Garassino (2005). "First record of the shrimp genus Carpopenaeus Glaessner, 1945 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Carpopenaeidae) from the Upper Jurassic". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte. 8: 490–502.
  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.