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Palaeobenthesicymus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Subphylum
  
Crustacea

Order
  
Decapoda

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Class
  
Malacostraca

Family
  
Benthesicymidae

Palaeobenthesicymus

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.

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Palaeobenthesicymus Wikipedia