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