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Extinct genus of crustaceans From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coleia is an extinct genus of decapods in the group Polychelida that lived from the Late Triassic to the Late Jurassic.[1] It was described by Broderip in 1835, and the type species is C. antiqua. A new species, C. martinlutheri, which existed during the Sinemurian of what is now Germany, was described by Günter Schweigert and Werner Ernst in 2012.[2]
Coleia Temporal range: | |
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Coleia longipes | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Family: | †Coleiidae |
Genus: | †Coleia Broderip, 1835 |
Type species | |
Coleia antiqua Broderip, 1835 |
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