Biology:Paracancrinos

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Short description: Extinct genus of crustaceans

Paracancrinos
Temporal range: Cenomanian
[1]
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Cancrinidae
Genus: Paracancrinos
Haug et al., 2016
Species:
P. libanensis
Binomial name
Paracancrinos libanensis
(Garassino & Schweigert, 2006)
Synonyms
  • Cancrinos libanensis Garassino & Schweigert, 2006

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]

References

  1. "PBDB". https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=218371. 
  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". Arthropod Structure & Development 45 (2): 97–107. doi:10.1016/j.asd.2015.08.003. PMID 26319267. https://hal-univ-rennes1.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01191654/file/The%20evolution%20of%20a%20key%20character.pdf. 

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