Coleia Explained

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]

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Notes and References

  1. Hiroaki Karasawa . Fumio Takahashi . Eiji Doi . Hideo Ishida . 2003 . First notice of the family Coleiidae Van Straelen (Crustacea: Decapoda: Eryonoidea) from the upper Triassic of Japan . . 7 . 4 . 357–362 . 10.2517/prpsj.7.357. 129330859 .
  2. Günter Schweigert . Werner Ernst . 2012 . First record of a polychelid lobster (Crustacea: Decapoda: Coleiidae) from the Sinemurian (Early Jurassic) of Germany . . 263 . 1 . 35–42 . 10.1127/0077-7749/2012/0207.