Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Eucarida
Ordo: Decapoda
Subordo: Dendrobranchiata
Superfamilia: Penaeoidea
Familia: Benthesicymidae
Genus: †Palaeobenthesicymus
Species (1): P. libanensis
Name
Palaeobenthesicymus
Primary references
Audo, D.; Charbonnier, S. (in press, 2012): The crest-bearing shrimps from the Sahel Alma Lagerstätte (Late Cretaceous, Lebanon). Acta palaeontologica polonica, DOI: 10.4202/app.2011.0056
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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