Malacostraca - Decapoda - Aegeridae

Full reference: R. Förster and M. D. Crane. 1984. A new species of the penaeid shrimp Aeger Münster (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Upper Triassic of Somerset, England. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Monatshefte 1984(8):455-462

Belongs to Aeger according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also Förster and Crane 1984

Sister taxa: Aeger brevirostris, Aeger brodiei, Aeger elegans, Aeger elongatus, Aeger foersteri, Aeger franconicus, 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: CMBK Cd 1187, a carapace. Its type locality is Hapsford Bridge, Vallis Vale, which is in a Rhaetian marginal marine claystone in the Westbury Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Hapsford Bridge, Vallis Vale

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