Malacostraca - Decapoda - Penaeidae
Parent taxon: Penaeoidea according to S. De Grave et al. 2009
See also Garassino and Pasini 2002, Garassino and Teruzzi 1993, Hegna et al. 2020, Poore and Ahyong 2004 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Aciculopoda, Aegeridae, Aristeidae, Benthesicymidae, Carpopenaeidae, Ifasya, Sicyoniidae, Solenoceridae
Subtaxa: Albertoppelia Ambilobeia Antrimpos Bombur Bylgia Carinacaris Cretapenaeus Drobna Dusa Eopabdehus Funchalia Hakelocaris Koelga Libanocaris Longichela Macropenaeus Metapenaeopsis Metapenaeus Microchela Micropenaeus Parapenaeus Penaeopsis Penaeus Pseudobombur Pseudodusa Rauna Rhodanicaris Satyrocaris Satyrus Trachypenaeus
Type: Penaeus
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of France (1 collection), Italy (2)
• Eocene of Iran (1)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1)
• Cretaceous of Germany (2), Italy (1), Lebanon (2), Mexico (1), Morocco (2), United States (1: Tennessee)
• Jurassic of France (1), Germany (7), Switzerland (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Wyoming)
• Triassic of France (7), Germany (1), Italy (12), Madagascar (1), Switzerland (1)
Total: 49 collections including 81 occurrences