Palaeobenthesicymus
| Palaeobenthesicymus libanensis Temporal range: Santonian | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Family: | Benthesicymidae |
| Genus: | Palaeobenthesicymus Audo & Charbonnier, 2013 |
| Species: | P. libanensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Palaeobenthesicymus libanensis (Brocchi, 1875) | |
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Palaeobenthesicymus is an extinct genus of prawns which existed in what is now Lebanon in the Late Santonian. It was described by Denis Audo and Sylvain Charbonnier in 2013, as a new genus for the species Penaeus libanensis, first described by P. Brocchi in 1875.[1]
References
- ↑ Denis Audo & Sylvain Charbonnier (2013). "The crest-bearing shrimps from the Sahel Alma Lagerstätte (Late Cretaceous, Lebanon)". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58 (2): 335–349. doi:10.4202/app.2011.0056.
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