Bombur (genus)

Bombur
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Dendrobranchiata
Family: Penaeidae
Genus: Bombur
Münster, 1839
Type species
Bombur complicatus
Species
  • Bombur complicatus Münster, 1839
  • Bombur aonis Bronn, 1858

Bombur is an extinct genus of prawn in the order Decapoda known from the Jurassic of North America and Triassic of Europe.[1] It was described in 1839 by Georg zu Münster, and named after the dwarf Bombur of Norse mythology.[2]

References

  1. "Bombur Münster, 1839". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  2. Münster, G. Graf zu (1839). "Decapoda Macroura. Abbildung und Beschreibung der fossilen langschwänzigen Krebse in den Kalkschiefern von Bayern". Beiträge zur Petrefacten-Kunde 2. pp. 1–88.


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