Jurassic Lobster
The Jurassic lobster, Coleia longipes (=Eryon arctiformis)
Order Decapoda LATREILLE 1803
Suborder Astacidea LATREILLE 1803
Genus Eryon Desmarest, 1817
Eryon arctiformis (von Schlotheim)
Superfamily Eryonidea DE HAAN 1841
Family Coleiidae VAN STRAELEN 1924
Genus Coleia BRODERIP 1835
Type species: Coleia antiquarian BRODERIP
Coleia longipes (O. FRAAS)
Type locality: "Westerberg" in Nusplingen, southwestern Swabian Alb,
Baden-Württemberg. Stratum typicum: Nusplingen Lithographic Limestone,
Upper Kimmeridgian beckeri zone, Ulmense-Subzone (SCHWEIGERT 1998).
The lectotype comes from the deeper Plattenkalk beds, the horizon marked
by the presence of thin Silex beds. (see DIETL, SCHWEIGERT, et al., 1998)
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