Cycleryon
| Cycleryon Temporal range: Jurassic | |
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| Cycleryon propinquus from Germany, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Family: | Eryonidae |
| Genus: | Cycleryon Glaessner 1965 |
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Cycleryon is an extinct genus of decapod crustaceans. The type species is Cycleryon propinquus.[2]
These epifaunal carnivores lived during the Jurassic of Germany and France, from 164.7 to 161.2 Ma.[1][3]
Species
- Cycleryon elongatus Munster 1839
- Cycleryon orbiculatus Munster 1839
- Cycleryon propinquus Schlotheim 1822
- Cycleryon wulfi Garassino and Schweigert 2004
References
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