Gampsurus

Gampsurus
Temporal range: Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Caridea
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Gampsurus
Von der Marck, 1863
Species: G. dubius
Binomial name
Gampsurus dubius
Von der Marck, 1863

Gampsurus is an extinct genus of shrimp in the order Decapoda. It existed in Germany during the Cretaceous period.[1] It contains a single species,[2] Gampsurus dubius.

References

  1. Frederick R. Schram (1986). Crustacea. Oxford University Press. p. 272. ISBN 978-0-19-503742-5.
  2. 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.
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