Coleia
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| 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 | |
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]
