Bechleja
| Bechleja Temporal range: | |
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| Specimen of Bechleja rostrata from the Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Palaemonidae |
| Genus: | †Bechleja Houša, 1957 |
Bechleja is an extinct genus of shrimp which existed during the Eocene period. It contains four species.
References
- ↑ Alessandro Garassino & Sergio Bravi (2003). "Palaemon antonellae new species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea) from the lower Cretaceous "Platydolomite" of Profeti (Caserta, Italy)". Journal of Paleontology. 77 (3): 589–592. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2003)077<0589:PANSCD>2.0.CO;2.
- ↑ 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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