Daira speciosa
| † Daira speciosa Temporal range: Miocene | |
|---|---|
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| Daira speciosa carapace | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Dairidae |
| Genus: | Daira |
| Species: | † D. speciosa |
| Binomial name | |
| † Daira speciosa (Reuss, 1871) | |
Daira speciosa is a species of crab that lived in the Paratethys sea during the Miocene period.[1][2] It was up to 4 centimetres (1.6 in) long.
References
- ↑ L. Garcia Socias (1990). "Daira speciosa Reuss, 1871 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Xanthidae) en el Mioceno de la Isla de Mallorca (Baleares)" (PDF). Bolleti de la Societat d'Historia Natural de les Balears 33: 81–85.
- ↑ Michael Gatt & Antonio de Angeli (2010). "A new coral-associated decapod assemblage from the Upper Miocene (Messinian) upper coralline limestone of Malta (central Mediterranean)" (PDF). Palaeontology 53 (6): 1315–1348. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.01008.x.