Palaeobenthesicymus

Palaeobenthesicymus libanensis
Temporal range: Santonian
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]

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