Eryonidae

Eryonidae is a family of fossil decapod crustaceans which lived from the Upper Triassic to the Lower Cretaceous.[1] It contains four genera:[2] An aggregation of three unidentified eryonids was reported in 2012 inside a Late Jurassic ammonoid of the species Harpoceras falciferum; they represent the earliest evidence of gregarious behaviour in decapods.[3]

  • Cycleryon Glaessner, 1965
  • Eryon A. G. Desmarest, 1817
  • Knebelia Van Straelen, 1922
  • Rosenfeldia Garassino, Teruzzi & Dalla Vecchia, 1996

Eryonidae
Temporal range: Upper Triassic–Lower Cretaceous
Eryon acrtiformis
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Eryonidae

De Haan, 1841
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References

  1. Hiroaki Karasawa; Fumio Takahashi; Eiji Doi; Hideo Ishida (2003). "First record of Coleia Broderip (Crustacea, Decapoda, Coleiidae) from the Upper Triassic of Japan". Contributions to Zoology. 72 (2/3).
  2. 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.
  3. Adiël A. Klompmaker; René H. B. Fraaije (2012). "Animal behavior frozen in time: gregarious behavior of Early Jurassic lobsters within an ammonoid body chamber". PLoS ONE. 7 (3): e31893. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031893. PMC 3296704. PMID 22412846.
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