Probeebeidae
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| Probeebeidae | |
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| Probeebei mirabilis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Anomura |
| Superfamily: | Paguroidea |
| Family: | Probeebeidae Boone, 1926 |
| Type genus | |
| Probeebei[2] Boone, 1926 | |
| Other genera | |
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The Probeebeidae are a family of marine hermit crabs with fossils dating back to the Albian stage of the Lower Cretaceous Epoch.[1] The family is thought to have originated somewhere in the Late Jurassic.[1]
