Malacostraca - Decapoda - Penaeidae

Full reference: S. Bravi and A. Garassino. 1998. New biostratigraphic and palaeoecologic observations on the "Plattenkalk" of the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) of Pietraroia (Benevento, S Italy), and its decapod crustaceans assemblage. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 138(1-2):119-171

Parent taxon: Penaeidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also Bravi and Garassino 1998 and Schweitzer et al. 2023

Sister taxa: Albertoppelia, Ambilobeia, Antrimpos, Araripenaeus, Bylgia, Bylginella, Carinacaris, Cretapenaeus, Drobna, Dusa, Eopabdehus, Eystaettia, Franconipenaeus, Funchalia, Hakelocaris, Ifasya, Joinvilleicaris, Koelga, Ladinicaris, Libanocaris, Longichela, Macropenaeus, Metapenaeopsis, Metapenaeus, Microchela, Oppelicaris, Parapenaeus, Penaeopsis, Penaeus, Pseudobombur, Pseudodrobna, Pseudodusa, Rauna, Rhodanicaris, Satyrocaris, Tiche, Trachypenaeus, Tzeltalpenaeus, Xiaopenaeus, Zoquepenaeus

Subtaxa: Micropenaeus tenuirostris

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Type: Micropenaeus tenuirostris

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Le Cavere site, Pietraroia (Museo Napoli collection) (Cretaceous of Italy)

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