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 elongatus, 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 i8749, 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

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