Erymidae is a
family of
decapod crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group ...
s known only from
fossils. They survived for 100 million years, from the
Permo-Triassic boundary to the
Albian
The Albian is both an age (geology), age of the geologic timescale and a stage (stratigraphy), stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the youngest or uppermost subdivision of the Early Cretaceous, Early/Lower Cretaceous epoch (geology), Epoch/s ...
.
Eleven
genera are recognised:
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Clytiella''
Glaessner, 1931 – 1 species
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Clytiopsis''
Bill, 1914 – 3 species
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Enoploclytia''
M’Coy, 1849 – 20 species
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Eryma''
Von Meyer, 1840 – 44 species
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Galicia''
Garassino & Krobicki, 2002 – 3 species
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Lissocardia''
Von Meyer, 1851 – 3 species
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Palaeastacus''
Bell, 1850 – 24 species
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Paraclytiopsis''
Oravec, 1962 – 1 species
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Protoclytiopsis''
Birshtein, 1958 – 1 species
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Pustulina''
Quenstedt, 1857 – 12 species
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Stenodactylina''
Beurlen, 1928 – 1 species
References
Glypheidea
Prehistoric crustacean families
Triassic crustaceans
Jurassic crustaceans
Triassic first appearances
Early Cretaceous extinctions
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