Aeger libanensis

Aeger libanensis is a species of fossil prawn belonging to the family Aegeridae.^[1] These prawns had very long pereiopods.

Aeger libanensis Temporal range: Late Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Aeger libanensis from Liban
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Dendrobranchiata
Family:	†Aegeridae
Genus:	†Aeger
Species:	†A. libanensis
Binomial name
†Aeger libanensis Roger 1946

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