{{Short description|Extinct genus of crustaceans}} {{automatic taxobox | image = Eryon cuvieri Solnhofen.jpg | image_caption = ''Eryon cuvieri'' | fossil_range= {{fossil range|Late Jurassic}} | taxon=Eryon | authority = A. G. Desmarest, 1817&nbsp;<ref name="Desmarest">{{cite journal |journal = Nouveau dictionnaire d'Histoire naturelle appliquée aux arts, à l'Agriculture, à l'Économie rurale et domestique, à la Médecine, etc. COR-CUN |year=1817 |volume = T. 8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/nouveaudictionna08metc/page/495 495]–519 |title = Crustacés fossiles |author1=Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest |url=https://archive.org/details/nouveaudictionna08metc}}</ref> }}

'''''Eryon''''' is an extinct genus of decapod crustaceans from the Late Jurassic of Germany.<ref>{{cite book |author=Cyril Walker, David Ward |author2-link=David Ward (palaeontologist) |name-list-style=amp |year=2002 |series=Smithsonian Handbooks |title=Fossils |edition=2nd |publisher=Dorling Kindersley |isbn=978-0-7894-8984-5}}</ref> Its remains are known from the Solnhofen limestone. It reached a length of around {{convert|10|cm|in|abbr=on}}, and may have fed on particulate matter on the sea bed. It went extinct sometime after the Late Jurassic, which ended approximately 145 million years ago (Ma). There is no specific date for the extinction of the Eryon genus itself mentioned in the records, only that its existence is confined to the fossil records of the Late Jurassic period.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{Portal|Crustaceans|Paleontology}} *{{commons category-inline|Eryon|''Eryon''}}

{{Taxonbar|from=Q3502991}}

Category:Polychelida Category:Jurassic crustaceans Category:Solnhofen fauna Category:Fossil taxa described in 1817 {{paleo-crustacean-stub}}