Eryonidae

Eryonidae
Temporal range: Upper Triassic–Lower Cretaceous
Eryon acrtiformis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Superfamily: Eryonoidea
Family: Eryonidae
De Haan, 1841
Genera

Eryonidae is a family of fossil decapod crustaceans which lived from the Upper Triassic to the Lower Cretaceous.[1] It contains four genera:[2] An aggregation of three unidentified eryonids was reported in 2012 inside a Late Jurassic ammonoid of the species Harpoceras falciferum; they represent the earliest evidence of gregarious behaviour in decapods.[3]

  1. ^ Hiroaki Karasawa; Fumio Takahashi; Eiji Doi; Hideo Ishida (2003). "First record of Coleia Broderip (Crustacea, Decapoda, Coleiidae) from the Upper Triassic of Japan". Contributions to Zoology. 72 (2/3): 153–155. doi:10.1163/18759866-0720203017. S2CID 83891436. Archived from the original on 2012-03-28.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Adiël A. Klompmaker; René H. B. Fraaije (2012). "Animal behavior frozen in time: gregarious behavior of Early Jurassic lobsters within an ammonoid body chamber". PLoS ONE. 7 (3): e31893. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...731893K. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031893. PMC 3296704. PMID 22412846.