Estheriina extuberata Jones and Woodward 1899 (clam shrimp)

Branchiopoda - Diplostraca - Limnadiidae

Full reference: T. R. Jones and H. Woodward. 1899. Contributions to fossil Crustacea. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade IV 6:388-395

Belongs to Estheriina according to T. R. Jones and H. Woodward 1899

Sister taxon: Estheriina brasiliensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Frankfurt-on-the-Main, Stegocephalen-Kalk, which is in an Asselian/Sakmarian fluvial-lacustrine shale in the Sötern Formation of Germany

Ecology: slow-moving nektobenthic suspension feeder-detritivore

Distribution: found only at Frankfurt-on-the-Main, Stegocephalen-Kalk

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