Global InformationPalaeobenthesicymus information
| Palaeobenthesicymus libanensis Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Arthropoda
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| Subphylum: | Crustacea
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| Class: | Malacostraca
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| Order: | Decapoda
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| Family: | Benthesicymidae
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| Genus: | Palaeobenthesicymus Audo & Charbonnier, 2013
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| Species: | P. libanensis
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| 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]
- ^ 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.