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Extinct genus of crustaceans
For the king of the sea in Norse mythology, see
Ægir .
Aeger is a
genus of
fossil
prawns . They first occur in the
Early Triassic (
Paris biota ),
[3] and died out at the end of the
Late Cretaceous .
[2] A total of 21 species are known.
[1]
Species
References
^
a
b Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009).
"A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF) .
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from
the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
^
a
b Carrie E. Schweitzer; Rodney M. Feldmann; Iuliana Lažar (2009).
"Fossil Crustacea (excluding Cirripedia and Ostracoda) in the University of Bucharest Collections, Romania, including two new species" (PDF) .
Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum . 35 : 1–14. Archived from
the original (PDF) on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2010-01-10 .
^ Smith, Christopher P. A.; Charbonnier, Sylvain; Jenks, James F.; Bylund, Kevin G.; Escarguel, Gilles; Olivier, Nicolas; Fara, Emmanuel; Brayard, Arnaud (2022).
"The Paris Biota decapod (Arthropoda) fauna and the diversity of Triassic decapods" . Journal of Paleontology . 96 (6): 1235–1263.
Bibcode :
2022JPal...96.1235S .
doi :
10.1017/jpa.2022.34 .
S2CID
249448157 .
^ Huang, Jinyuan; Feldmann, Rodney M.; Schweitzer, Carrie E.; et al. (July 2013). "A new shrimp (Decapoda, Dendrobranchiata, Penaeoidea) from the Middle Triassic of Yunnan, southwest China". Journal of Paleontology . 87 (4): 603–611.
doi :
10.1666/13-024 .
S2CID
130586283 .