Paracancrinos

Paracancrinos is a prehistoric genus of crustacean that lived during the Upper Cretaceous in what is now Lebanon. It contains a single species, P. libanensis, which was originally described as a species of Cancrinos in 2006,[2] but was moved to its own genus in 2016.[3]

Paracancrinos
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Paracancrinos

Haug et al., 2016
Type species
Paracancrinos libanensis
(Garassino & Schweigert, 2006)
Species
  • P. libanensis
    (Garassino & Schweigert, 2006)
Synonyms
  • Cancrinos libanensis
    Garassino & Schweigert, 2006

References

  1. "PBDB".
  2. Alessandro Garassino; Günter Schweigert (2006). "The Upper Jurassic Solnhofen decapod crustacean fauna: review of the types from old descriptions. Part I. Infraorders Astacidea, Thalassinidea, and Palinura". Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano. 34.
  3. Haug, Joachim T.; Audo, Denis; Charbonnier, Sylvain; Palero, Ferran; Petit, Gilles; Abi Saad, Pierre; Haug, Carolin (2016). "The evolution of a key character, or how to evolve a slipper lobster" (PDF). Arthropod Structure & Development. 45 (2): 97–107. doi:10.1016/j.asd.2015.08.003. PMID 26319267.
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