Aeger marderi Woodward 1866 (decapod)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Aegeridae

Full reference: H. Woodward. 1866. On a New Crustacean (Aeger marderi H. W.), from the Lias of Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire. The Geological Magazine 3:10-13

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

See also Woods 1925 and Woodward 1866

Sister taxa: Aeger brevirostris, Aeger brodiei, 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 muensteri, Aeger robustus, Aeger rostrospinatus, Aeger spinipes, Aeger straeleni, Aeger tipularius

Type specimen: Its type locality is Lyme Regis, Blue Lias-clay (Marder collection), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian marine claystone in the United Kingdom

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Lyme Regis, Blue Lias-clay (Marder collection)

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