| Palaeobenthesicymus Temporal range: Santonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Dendrobranchiata |
| Family: | Benthesicymidae |
| Genus: | †Palaeobenthesicymus Audo & Charbonnier, 2013 |
| Species: | †P. libanensis |
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| †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.
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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