Penaeoidea is the larger of the two superfamilies of

prawns Prawn is a common name for small aquatic crustaceans with an exoskeleton and ten legs (which is a member of the order decapoda), some of which can be eaten. The term "prawn"Mortenson, Philip B (2010''This is not a weasel: a close look at nature ...

. It comprises eight families, three of which are known only from

fossil A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved ...

s. The fossil record of the group stretches back to ''

Aciculopoda ''Aciculopoda'' is an extinct prawn which existed in what is now Oklahoma approximately . It was described in 2010 on the basis of a single fossil from Oklahoma. The single species, ''Aciculopoda mapesi'', was named by Rodney Feldmann and Carr ...

'', discovered in

Famennian The Famennian is the latter of two faunal stages in the Late Devonian Epoch. The most recent estimate for its duration estimates that it lasted from around 371.1 million years ago to 359.3 million years ago. An earlier 2012 estimate, still used b ...

sediments in

Oklahoma Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...

. *† Aciculopodidae (1 genus, 1 species) *†

Aegeridae Aegeridae is a family of fossil A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of ani ...

(2 genera, 25 species) *

Aristeidae Aristeidae is a family of Dendrobranchiata decapod crustaceans known as deep-sea shrimps, gamba prawns or gamba shrimps. Some species are subject to commercial fisheries. Genera The following genera are classified under the Aristeidae: *'' Ar ...

(10 genera, 28 species) *

Benthesicymidae Benthesicymidae is a family of shrimps in the suborder Dendrobranchiata. References External links * * Benthesicymidaeat WoRMS Dendrobranchiata Decapod families {{Dendrobranchiata-stub ...

(5 genera, 43 species) *† Carpopenaeidae (1 genus, 3 species) *

Penaeidae Penaeidae is a family of marine crustaceans in the suborder Dendrobranchiata, which are often referred to as penaeid shrimp or penaeid prawns. The Penaeidae contain many species of economic importance, such as the tiger prawn, whiteleg shrimp, ...

(48 genera, 286 species) *

Sicyoniidae ''Sicyonia'' is a genus of prawns, placed in its own family, Sicyoniidae. It differs from other prawns in that the last three pairs of its pleopods are uniramous, rather than biramous as seen in all other prawns. ''Sicyonia'' contains 52 extant ...

(1 genus, 53 species) *

Solenoceridae Solenoceridae is a family of decapods The Decapoda or decapods (literally "ten-footed") are an order (biology), order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups, such as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, Caridea, s ...

(10 genera, 86 species)

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Dendrobranchiata Extant Late Devonian first appearances Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque Arthropod superfamilies {{paleo-crustacean-stub

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