Schernfeldia Winkler 2013 (shrimp)

Malacostraca - Decapoda

Full reference: N. Winkler. 2013. A new genus and species of caridean shrimps from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Lithographic Limestones of Schernfeld (S Germany). Zitteliana 53:77-83

Parent taxon: Caridea according to N. Winkler 2013

Sister taxa: Acanthinopus, Alcmonacaris, Alpheoidea, Atyoidea, Blaculla, Bresilioidea, Buergerocaris, Campylonotoidea, Crangonoidea, Galatheacaridoidea, Gampsurus, Hefriga, Leiothorax, Nematocarcinoidea, Oplophoroidea, Palaemonoidea, Pandaloidea, Parvocaris, Pasiphaeoidea, Physetocaridoidea, Pinnacaris, Pleopteryxoidea, Procaridoidea, Processoidea, Psalidopodoidea, Stylodactyloidea

Subtaxa: Schernfeldia schweigerti

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Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Blumenberg quarry, Eichstätt, Solnhofen (SMNS collection) (Jurassic of Germany)

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