Malacostraca - Decapoda - Penaeidae

Alternative combination: Antrimpos sharpii

Full reference: H. Woodward. 1869. Fourth Report on the Structure and Classification of the Fossil Crustacea. Report of the Thirty-Eighth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (Norwich, 1868) 72-75

Belongs to Penaeus according to H. Woods 1925

See also Schweitzer et al. 2010, Van Straelen 1925 and Woodward 1869

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

Type specimen: BMNH 59656. Its type locality is Kingsthorpe (communis-zone), which is in a Toarcian marine horizon in the United Kingdom.

Ecology: infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Kingsthorpe (communis-zone)

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