Cretatrizocheles
Appearance
Cretatrizocheles Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Anomura |
Family: | Pylochelidae |
Subfamily: | Trizochelinae |
Genus: | †Cretatrizocheles Fraaije, Klompmaker & Artal, 2012 |
Species: | †C. olazagutiensis
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Binomial name | |
†Cretatrizocheles olazagutiensis Fraaije, Klompmaker & Artal, 2012
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Cretatrizocheles olazagutiensis is an extinct hermit crab which existed during the Albian or Cenomanian of what is now Spain. It was described by René H.B. Fraaije, Adiël A. Klompmaker and Pedro Artal in 2012, and is the only species in the genus Cretatrizocheles.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ René H.B. Fraaije, Adiël A. Klompmaker & Pedro Artal (2012). "New species, genera and a family of hermit crabs (Crustacea, Anomura, Paguroidea) from a mid-Cretaceous reef of Navarra, northern Spain". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. 263 (1): 85–92. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2012/0213.
Categories:
- Hermit crabs
- Late Cretaceous crustaceans
- Fossils of Spain
- Fossil taxa described in 2012
- Early Cretaceous arthropods of Europe
- Albian genus first appearances
- Cretaceous Spain
- Cenomanian genus extinctions
- Early Cretaceous crustaceans
- Late Cretaceous arthropods of Europe
- Prehistoric crustacean genera
- Anomura stubs