Aeger

Aeger; Temporal range: Middle Triassic–Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Aeger elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Dendrobranchiata
Family:	†Aegeridae
Genus:	†Aeger; Münster, 1839
Type species
	Macrourites tipularius; Schlotheim, 1822

Aeger is a genus of fossil prawns. They first occur in the Middle Triassic, and died out at the end of the Late Cretaceous.^[2] A total of 21 species are known.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
^ ^a ^b Carrie E. Schweitzer; Rodney M. Feldmann; Iuliana Lažar (2009). "Fossil Crustacea (excluding Cirripedia and Ostracoda) in the University of Bucharest Collections, Romania, including two new species" (PDF). . 35: 1–14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2010-01-10.
^ Huang, Jinyuan; Feldmann, Rodney M.; Schweitzer, Carrie E.; et al. (July 2013). "A new shrimp (Decapoda, Dendrobranchiata, Penaeoidea) from the Middle Triassic of Yunnan, southwest China". Journal of Paleontology. 87 (4): 603–611. doi:10.1666/13-024.

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[Grave-1] 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.

[SFL-2] Carrie E. Schweitzer; Rodney M. Feldmann; Iuliana Lažar (2009). "Fossil Crustacea (excluding Cirripedia and Ostracoda) in the University of Bucharest Collections, Romania, including two new species" (PDF). . 35: 1–14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2010-01-10.

[3] Huang, Jinyuan; Feldmann, Rodney M.; Schweitzer, Carrie E.; et al. (July 2013). "A new shrimp (Decapoda, Dendrobranchiata, Penaeoidea) from the Middle Triassic of Yunnan, southwest China". Journal of Paleontology. 87 (4): 603–611. doi:10.1666/13-024.

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Aeger Temporal range: Middle Triassic–Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

Aeger elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Dendrobranchiata
Family:	†Aegeridae
Genus:	†Aeger Münster, 1839 ^[1]
Type species
Macrourites tipularius Schlotheim, 1822 ^[2]