Cycleryon

Cycleryon
Temporal range: Kimmeridgian–Tithonian
Cycleryon propinquus from Germany, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: †Eryonidae
Genus: †Cycleryon
Glaessner, 1965
Type species
†Macrourites propinquus
von Schlotheim, 1822
Species[1]
  • C. propinquus
    (von Schlotheim, 1822)
  • C. orbiculatus
    (Münster, 1839)
  • C. elongatus
    (Münster, 1839)
  • C. wulfi
    Garassino & Schweigert, 2004
  • C. bourseaui
    Audo et al., 2014

Cycleryon is an extinct genus of decapod crustaceans. The type species is Cycleryon propinquus.[2]

These epifaunal carnivores lived during the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) of Germany and France.[1]

Cycleryon orbiculatus
  1. ^ a b Audo, D.; Charbonnier, S.; Schweigert, G.; Saint Martin, J.-P. (2014). "New eryonid crustaceans from the Late Jurassic Lagerstätten of Cerin (France), Canjuers (France), Wattendorf (Germany) and Zandt (Germany)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 12 (4): 459–479. doi:10.1080/14772019.2013.777809. S2CID 128805162.
  2. ^ Decapoda: Eryonoidea