Aeger libanensis is a species of fossil prawn belonging to the family Aegeridae.[1] These prawns had very long pereiopods.
Fossil record
Fossils of Aeger libanensis are found in the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) marine outcrops at Hjoula and Mayfouq in Lebanon (age range: from 93.9 to 100.5 million years ago.).[2]
Bibliography
- Alessandro Garassino The macraran decapod crustaceans of the Upper Cretaceous of Lebanon
- Roger (J.), 1946 - Les invertébrés des couches à poissons du Crétacé supérieur du Liban. Mémoires de la Société géologique de France, t. 23, mém. 51, p. 1-92
- Víctor M. Bravo-Cuevas, Katia A. González-Rodríguez, Carlos Esquivel-Macías, Christopher Fielitz Advances on Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Muhi Quarry from the Mid-Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) of Hidalgo, Central Mexico
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