Palaeobenthesicymus
| Palaeobenthesicymus Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Dendrobranchiata |
| Family: | Benthesicymidae |
| Genus: | †Palaeobenthesicymus Audo & Charbonnier, 2013 |
| Species: | †P. libanensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †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.