Palaeobenthesicymus
Extinct genus of crustaceans
Palaeobenthesicymus libanensis Temporal range: Santonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
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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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