Palaeocuma

Palaeocuma hessi is an extinct species of cumacean, the only species in the genus Palaeocuma, and one of very few fossil cumaceans ever discovered. It lived in the Callovian age (Middle Jurassic) in France.[1]

Palaeocuma
Temporal range: Callovian
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Superorder:
Peracarida
Order:
Cumacea
Infraorder:
Neocumacea
Genus:
Palaeocuma

Bachmayer, 1960
Species:
P. hessi
Binomial name
Palaeocuma hessi
Bachmayer, 1960

References
  1. Frederick R. Schram; Cees H. J. Hof; Royal H. Mapes; Polly Snowdon (2003). "Paleozoic cumaceans (Crustacea, Malacostraca, Peracarida) from North America". Contributions to Zoology. 72 (1): 1–16.


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