Albertoppelia

Albertoppelia
Temporal range: Upper Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Dendrobranchiata
Family: Penaeidae
Genus: Albertoppelia
Schweigert & Garassino, 2003
Species: A. kuempeli
Binomial name
Albertoppelia kuempeli
Schweigert & Garassino, 2003

Albertoppelia is an extinct genus of prawn which existed during the Upper Jurassic period, named after Albert Oppel. It contains the single species Abertoppelia kuempeli.[1]

References

  1. Günter Schweigert & Alessandro Garassino (2004). "New genera and species of shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dendrobranchiata, Caridea) from the Upper Jurassic lithographic limestones of S Germany" (PDF). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Ser. B. 350: 33 pp.


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