Palaeobenthesicymus

Palaeobenthesicymus libanensis; Temporal range: Santonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
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)
Synonyms
	Penaeus libanensis Brocchi, 1875; Benthesicymus libanensis (Brocchi, 1875);

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[edit]

^ 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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[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.

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