Eryma

Eryma; Temporal range: Permian–Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Eryma mandelslohi specimen on display at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Family:	†Erymidae
Genus:	†Eryma; von Meyer, 1840

Eryma is a genus of fossil lobster-like crustaceans, containing 44 species.^[1] The oldest known species was discovered in non-marine deposits from the late Permian Ust-Yenisei Borehole in Russia.^[2] Other species are known from much of the world, especially Europe and North America.

Species

There are 44 known species of Eryma:

E. affinis
E. amalthei
E. americana
E. americanum
E. anisodactylum
E. antiquum
E. australe
E. babeaui
E. birdi
E. boloniensis
E. bordenensis
E. caraboeufi
E. compressum
E. corallinum
E. crassimanum
E. cumonti
E. dutertrei
E. flecta
E. flectum
E. fossatum
E. georgei
E. glaessneri
E. gracilimanum
E. hoerstgenensis
E. jungostrix
E. lafayi
E. lerasi
E. leucodermum
E. madagascariensis
E. major
E. mandelslohi
E. modestiforme
E. modestiformis
E. mosquensis
E. nippon
E. ollerenshawi
E. ornatum
E. oscari
E. osciensis
E. pulchellum
E. punctatum
E. quadriverrucatum
E. quenstedti
E. radiatum
E. rinellincolum
E. romani
E. sinemurianum
E. squalidum
E. stantoni
E. strambergensis
E. stricklandi
E. sulcatum
E. veltheimii
E. ventrosum
E. vocontii

References

↑ 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.
↑ "Eryma". PalaeoBioDB. Retrieved 23 September 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

External links

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[Grave-1] 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.

[2] "Eryma". PalaeoBioDB. Retrieved 23 September 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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