Eryma

Eryma
Temporal range:
Eryma mandelslohi specimen on display at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: †Erymidae
Genus: †Eryma
von Meyer, 1840

Eryma is a genus of fossil lobster-like crustaceans, containing 44 species. The oldest known species was discovered in non-marine deposits from the late Triassic Chinle Formation located in the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. Two other species were discovered in the Solnhofen Limestone in Germany.

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