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| Eryma mandelslohi specimen on display at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Family: | †Erymidae |
| Genus: | †Eryma von Meyer, 1840 |
Eryma is a genus of fossil lobster-like crustaceans, containing 44 species.1 The oldest known species was discovered in non-marine deposits from the late Triassic Chinle Formation located in the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona.2 Two other species were discovered in the Solnhofen Limestone in Germany.
References
References
- 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.
- Miller, Gary L.; Ash, Sydney R. (1988). "The Oldest Freshwater Decapod Crustacean, From The Triassic Of Arizona" (PDF). Palaeontology. 31, Part 2: 273–279. Retrieved 6 July 2025.