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