Palaeopalaemon
Genus of crustacean
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Palaeopalaemon is an extinct genus of the oldest lobster-like aquatic decapod crustaceans, containing the species Palaeopalaemon newberryi.[1]
| Palaeopalaemon Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Family: | †Palaeopalaemonidae Brooks, 1962 |
| Genus: | †Palaeopalaemon Whitfield, 1880 |
| Species: | †P. newberryi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Palaeopalaemon newberryi Whitfield, 1880 | |