Cycleryon

Cycleryon
Temporal range:
Cycleryon propinquus from Germany, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Eryonidae
Genus: Cycleryon
Glaessner, 1965
Type species
Macrourites propinquus
von Schlotheim, 1822
Species
  • C. propinquus
    (von Schlotheim, 1822)
  • C. orbiculatus
    (Münster, 1839)
  • C. elongatus
    (Münster, 1839)
  • C. wulfi
    Garassino & Schweigert, 2004
  • C. bourseaui
    Audo et al., 2014

Cycleryon is an extinct genus of decapod crustaceans. The type species is Cycleryon propinquus.

These epifaunal carnivores lived during the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) of Germany and France.