Malacostraca - Decapoda - Aegeridae
Full reference: A. Garassino and G. Teruzzi. 1990. The genus Aeger Münster, 1839 in the Sinemurian of Osteno in Lombardy (Crustacea, Decapoda). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 131(5):105-136
Belongs to Aeger according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Garassino and Teruzzi 1990
Sister taxa: Aeger brevirostris, Aeger brodiei, Aeger elegans, 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: MSNM i8772, a carapace. Its type locality is Osteno, which is in a Bucklandi lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Lombardische Kieselkalk Formation of Italy.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Osteno
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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