Mecochirus longimanatus

Mecochirus longimanatus; Temporal range: Late Jurassic PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Fossil from the Solnhofen limestones (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Family:	Mecochiridae
Genus:	Mecochirus
Species:	M. longimanatus
Binomial name
	Mecochirus longimanatus; Schlotheim, 1822
Synonyms
	Mecochirus longimanus [1]

Mecochirus longimanatus is an extinct species of lobster-like decapod crustacean from the Jurassic of Europe.

References

Carrie E. Schweitzer, Rodney M. Feldmann & Iuliana Lazǎr (2009). "Fossil Crustacea (excluding Cirripedia and Ostracoda) in the University of Bucharest Collections, Romania, including two new species" (PDF). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum. 35: 1–14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-12.

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