Carpopenaeus is an extinct genus of prawn, which existed during the Upper Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.[1][2] It contains three species.[2][3]
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| Carpopenaeus callirostris | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Dendrobranchiata |
| Superfamily: | Penaeoidea |
| Family: | †Carpopenaeidae Garassino, 1994 |
| Genus: | †Carpopenaeus Glaessner, 1946 |
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References edit
- ^ Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, Volume 2, by Raymond Cecil Moore, Curt Teichert, Joint Committee on Invertebrate Paleontology, Geological Society of America. Published 1953.
- ^ a b Günther Schweigert; Alessandro Garassino (2005). "First record of the shrimp genus Carpopenaeus Glaessner, 1945 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Carpopenaeidae) from the Upper Jurassic". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte. 8: 490–502.
- ^ Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
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