Alcmonacaris
| Alcmonacaris Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Alcmonacaris Polz, 2009 |
| Species: | †A. winkleri
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| Binomial name | |
| †Alcmonacaris winkleri Polz, 2009 [1]
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Alcmonacaris winkleri is an extinct Late Jurassic species of shrimp in its own genus, Alcmonacaris, which cannot yet be placed in a family.[2] It was described in 2009 from a specimen in the Solnhofen limestone.
References
- ^ Hermann Polz (2009). "Alcmonacaris winkleri g. nov. sp. nov. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pleocyemata: Caridea) aus den Solnhofener Plattenkalken von Eichstätt". Archaeopteryx. 26: 1–9.
- ^ 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.