Micropenaeus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of crustaceans}} {{distinguish|Micropenis}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Albian}} | image = | genus = Micropenaeus | parent_authority = Bravi & Garassino, 1998 | species = tenuirostris | authority = Bravi & Garassino, 1998 }}

'''''Micropenaeus''''' is an extinct genus of prawns in the order Decapoda. It was first named in 1998 by Sergio Bravi and Alessandro Garassino.<ref name="Grave">{{cite journal|journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |year=2009 |volume=Suppl. 21 |pages=1–109 |title=A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans |author1=Sammy De Grave |author2=N. Dean Pentcheff |author3=Shane T. Ahyong |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |display-authors=etal |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064728/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |archivedate=2011-06-06 }}</ref>{{rp|14}} The only species is '''''Micropenaeus tenuirostris'''''.

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==Further reading== {{Refbegin}} * {{Cite journal |last=Bravi |first=Sergio |last2=Garassino |first2=Alessandro |date=February 1998 |title=New biostratigraphic and palaeoecologic observations on the "Plattenkalk" of the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) of Pietraroia (Benevento, S Italy), and its decapod crustaceans assemblage. |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58422343#page/121/mode/1up |journal=Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano |location=Milan |volume=138/1997 |number=I–II |pages=119–171 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}} {{Refend}}

Category:Penaeidae Category:Monotypic prehistoric decapod genera Category:Early Cretaceous crustaceans Category:Fossils of Italy Category:Cretaceous Italy Category:Early Cretaceous arthropods of Europe Category:Albian genera