Malacostraca - Decapoda - Aegeridae
Full reference: H. Woodward. 1888. On a new species of Aeger from the Lower Lias, of Wilmcote, Warwickshire. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade III 5:385-387
Belongs to Aeger according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Woods 1925 and Woodward 1888
Sister taxa: Aeger brevirostris, Aeger elegans, Aeger elongatus, Aeger foersteri, Aeger franconicus, Aeger gracilis, Aeger hidalguensis, Aeger insignis, Aeger laevis, Aeger lehmanni, Aeger libanensis, Aeger luxii, Aeger macropus, Aeger marderi, Aeger muensteri, Aeger robustus, Aeger rostrospinatus, Aeger spinipes, Aeger straeleni, Aeger tipularius
Type specimen: BMNH I.3022, a carapace. Its type locality is Wilmcote (Brodie coll), which is in a Planorbis carbonate claystone in the Blue Lias Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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