Pleopteryx

Pleopteryx is an extinct genus of true shrimp in the family Pleopteryxidae^[2], of which it is also the sole member. It lived in what is now modern day Bavaria during the Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic Epoch.^[1]

Pleopteryx Temporal range: Late Jurassic (Tithonian)[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Caridea
Superfamily:	†Pleopteryxoidea Schweigert & Garassino, 2004
Family:	†Pleopteryxidae Schweigert & Garassino, 2004
Genus:	†Pleopteryx Schweigert & Garassino, 2004[1]
Species:	†P. kuempeli
Binomial name
†Pleopteryx kuempeli Schweigert & Garassino, 2004[2]

Its type and only species is Pleopteryx kuempeli.^[2]