Pleopteryx
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Superfamily: | †Pleopteryxoidea Schweigert & Garassino, 2004 |
| Family: | †Pleopteryxidae Schweigert & Garassino, 2004 |
| Genus: | †Pleopteryx Schweigert & Garassino, 2004[1] |
| Species: | †P. kuempeli
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| †Pleopteryx kuempeli Schweigert & Garassino, 2004[2]
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Pleopteryx is an extinct genus of true shrimp in the family Pleopteryxidae[2], of which it is also the sole member. It lived in what is now modern day Bavaria during the Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic Epoch.[1]
Its type and only species is Pleopteryx kuempeli.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Pleopteryx in the Paleobiology Database
- ^ a b c "Pleopteryx Schweigert & Garassino, 2006 †". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species.
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