Cycleryon
Extinct genus of crustaceans
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Cycleryon is an extinct genus of decapod crustaceans. The type species is Cycleryon propinquus.[2]
| Cycleryon Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| Cycleryon propinquus from Germany, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Family: | †Eryonidae |
| Genus: | †Cycleryon Glaessner, 1965 |
| Type species | |
| †Macrourites propinquus von Schlotheim, 1822 | |
| Species[1] | |
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These epifaunal carnivores lived during the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) of Germany and France.[1]
