Carpopenaeus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of crustaceans}}

{{automatic taxobox

| image = Carpopenaeus callirostris 1.jpg

| image_caption = Carpopenaeus callirostris

| fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Upper Jurassic|Cretaceous}}

| display_parents = 3

| parent_authority = Garassino, 1994

| taxon = Carpopenaeus

| authority = Glaessner, 1946

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• † Carpopenaeus callirostris
• † Carpopenaeus peterbuergeri
• † Carpopenaeus septemspintus

}}

Carpopenaeus is an extinct genus of prawn, which existed during the Upper Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, Volume 2, by Raymond Cecil Moore, Curt Teichert, Joint Committee on Invertebrate Paleontology, Geological Society of America. Published 1953. It contains three species.{{cite journal|journal = Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte |year=2005 | volume = 8 |pages= 490–502 |title = First record of the shrimp genus Carpopenaeus Glaessner, 1945 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Carpopenaeidae) from the Upper Jurassic |author1=Günther Schweigert |author2=Alessandro Garassino }}{{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 }}