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Extinct genus of crustaceans

Coleia
Temporal range: Late Triassic–Late Jurassic PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Coleia longipes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Coleiidae
Genus: Coleia
Broderip, 1835
Type species
Coleia antiqua
Broderip, 1835

Coleia is an extinct genus of decapods in the group Polychelida that lived from the Late Triassic to the Late Jurassic. It was described by Broderip in 1835, and the type species is C. antiqua. A new species, C. martinlutheri, which existed during the Sinemurian of what is now Germany, was described by Günter Schweigert and Werner Ernst in 2012.

Species

References

  1. Hiroaki Karasawa; Fumio Takahashi; Eiji Doi; Hideo Ishida (2003). "First notice of the family Coleiidae Van Straelen (Crustacea: Decapoda: Eryonoidea) from the upper Triassic of Japan" (PDF). Paleontological Research. 7 (4): 357–362. doi:10.2517/prpsj.7.357. S2CID 129330859.
  2. Günter Schweigert; Werner Ernst (2012). "First record of a polychelid lobster (Crustacea: Decapoda: Coleiidae) from the Sinemurian (Early Jurassic) of Germany". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. 263 (1): 35–42. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2012/0207.

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Taxon identifiers
Coleia


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