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Cycleryon

Cycleryon
Temporal range: Jurassic
Cycleryon propinquus (fossil crustacean) Solnhofen Limestone.jpg
Cycleryon propinquus from Germany, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Eryonidae
Genus: Cycleryon
Glaessner 1965
Synonyms
  • Eryon propinquus

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

These epifaunal carnivores lived during the Jurassic of Germany and France, from 164.7 to 161.2 Ma.




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