Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palaemonidae

Full reference: W. Santana, A. Pinheiro, C. M. R. Da Silva and A. A. Saraiva. 2013. A new fossil caridean shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Cretaceous (Albian) of the Romualdo Formation, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3620(2):293-300

Parent taxon: Palaemonidae according to C.E. Schweitzer et al. 2023

See also Santana et al. 2013

Sister taxa: Alburnia, Bahiacaris, Bechleja, Beurlenia, Micropsalis, Palaemon, Palaemonetes, Parapalaemonetes, Propalaemon, Pseudocaridinella, Schmelingia, Yongjiacaris, Gnathophyllum, Gnathophylloides

Subtaxa: Kellnerius jamacaruensis

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Type: Kellnerius jamacaruensis

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Sitio Pinheira, Missão Velha, Jamacaru (Cretaceous of Brazil)

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