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Sculdidae

Sculdidae is a family of fossil mantis shrimps which lived from the late Jurassic to late Cretaceous periods. It was erected in 1886 to contain the type genus Sculda, and other genera have since been assigned to it. Fossils of sculdids have been found in Germany, Lebanon and the United States. The family may be polyphyletic.

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Sculdidae
Temporal range:
Fossil of Sculda pennata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Stomatopoda
Suborder: Unipeltata
Family: †Sculdidae
Dames, 1886
Genera

Sculdidae is a family of fossil mantis shrimps which lived from the late Jurassic to late Cretaceous periods. It was erected in 1886 to contain the type genus Sculda (which it is named after), and other genera have since been assigned to it.1 Fossils of sculdids have been found in Germany, Lebanon and the United States. The family may be polyphyletic.2

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References

  1. Dames, W. (1886-01-01). "Ueber einige Crustaceen aus den Kreideablagerungen des Libanon". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft (in German): 551–576.
  2. Smith, C.P.A.; Aubier, P.; Charbonnier, S.; Laville, T.; Olivier, N.; Escarguel, G.; Jenks, J.F.; Bylund, K.G.; Fara, E.; Brayard, A. (2023-03-31). "Closing a major gap in mantis shrimp evolution – first fossils of Stomatopoda from the Triassic". Bulletin of Geosciences: 95–110. doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1864. ISSN 1802-8225.