Mecochirus longimanatus

Mecochirus longimanatus
Temporal range: Late Jurassic
Fossil from the Solnhofen limestones (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Mecochiridae
Genus: Mecochirus
Species: M. longimanatus
Binomial name
Mecochirus longimanatus
Schlotheim, 1822
Synonyms

Mecochirus longimanus [1]

Mecochirus longimanatus is an extinct species of lobster-like decapod crustacean from the Jurassic of Europe.

References

  1. Carrie E. Schweitzer, Rodney M. Feldmann & Iuliana Lazǎr (2009). "Fossil Crustacea (excluding Cirripedia and Ostracoda) in the University of Bucharest Collections, Romania, including two new species" (PDF). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 35: 1–14.

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