Erymidae is a

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of decapod

crustacean Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean gro ...

s known only from

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s. They survived for 100 million years, from the Permo-Triassic boundary to the

Albian The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the youngest or uppermost subdivision of the Early/Lower Cretaceous Epoch/ Series. Its approximate time range is 113.0 ± 1.0 Ma to 100.5 ± ...

. Eleven

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are recognised: *'' Clytiella'' Glaessner, 1931 – 1 species *'' Clytiopsis'' Bill, 1914 – 3 species *'' Enoploclytia'' M’Coy, 1849 – 20 species *''

Eryma ''Eryma'' is a genus of fossil lobster-like crustacean Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, ...

'' Von Meyer, 1840 – 44 species *''

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'' Garassino & Krobicki, 2002 – 3 species *'' Lissocardia'' Von Meyer, 1851 – 3 species *'' Palaeastacus'' Bell, 1850 – 24 species *'' Paraclytiopsis'' Oravec, 1962 – 1 species *'' Protoclytiopsis'' Birshtein, 1958 – 1 species *'' Pustulina'' Quenstedt, 1857 – 12 species *'' Stenodactylina'' Beurlen, 1928 – 1 species

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Glypheidea Prehistoric crustacean families Triassic crustaceans Jurassic crustaceans Triassic first appearances Early Cretaceous extinctions {{Jurassic-animal-stub