Longichela
| Longichela Temporal range: 205.6–201.6 Ma | |
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| Longichela from Berbenno (Italy) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Dendrobranchiata |
| Family: | Penaeidae |
| Genus: | Longichela Garassino & Teruzzi, 1993 |
| Species: | L. orobica |
| Binomial name | |
| Longichela orobica | |
Longichela orobica is an extinct species of prawn[1] which lived in the Norian,[2] and is the only species in the genus Longichela.[3]
Distribution
Fossils of this species were found only in the Triassic marine strata of Lombardy (Northern Italy).
References
- ↑ A. Garassino & G. Teruzzi (1993). "A new decapod crustacean assemblage from the Upper Triassic of Lombardy (N. Italy)". Paleontologia Lombarda 1 (n.s.): 27.
- ↑ "List of the paleontological species found in the Upper Triassic localities of the Bergamo Area and preserved at the Museo di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Caffi" of Bergamo". Triassico.it. Retrieved January 30, 2010.
- ↑ 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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