Malacostraca - Decapoda - Penaeidae

Full reference: A. Garassino and S. Harper. 2004. Penaeus hamleti n. sp. and Penaeus furensis n. sp. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Penaeidae) from the Stolle Klint Clay (Paleocene) of Fur Island (Denmark). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 145(2):329-336

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

See also Garassino and Harper 2004

Sister taxa: Penaeus arambourgi, Penaeus barmerensis, Penaeus bolcensis, Penaeus cornappensis, Penaeus esculentus, Penaeus glaessneri, Penaeus hamleti, Penaeus kapurdii, Penaeus latisulcatus, Penaeus maddeni, Penaeus natator, Penaeus obtusus, Penaeus plebejus, Penaeus sharpii, Penaeus smyrnacus, Penaeus sorbinii, Penaeus spectabilis, Penaeus tenuicauda, Penaeus vanzii, Penaeus vernassensis, Penaeus wenasogensis

Type specimen: MGUH 27142, a carapace. Its type locality is Stolle Klint, which is in a Thanetian offshore claystone in the Ølst Formation of Denmark.

Ecology: infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Stolle Klint

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