Aeger libanensis Temporal range:
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Aeger libanensis from Liban | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Dendrobranchiata |
Family: | † Aegeridae |
Genus: | † Aeger |
Species: | †A. libanensis
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Binomial name | |
†Aeger libanensis Roger 1946
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Aeger libanensis is a species of fossil prawn belonging to the family Aegeridae. [1] These prawns had very long pereiopods.
Fossils of Aeger libanensis are found in the Cenomanian ( Late Cretaceous) marine outcrops at Hjoula and Mayfouq in Lebanon (age range: from 93.9 to 100.5 million years ago.). [2]