Malacostraca - Decapoda - Penaeidae
Full reference: A. Garassino. 1994. The macruran decapod crustaceans of the Upper Cretaceous of Lebanon. Paleontologia Lombarda 3:1-27
Parent taxon: Penaeidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Albertoppelia, Ambilobeia, Antrimpos, Bombur, Bylgia, Carinacaris, Cretapenaeus, Drobna, Dusa, Eopabdehus, Funchalia, Hakelocaris, Koelga, Longichela, Macropenaeus, Metapenaeopsis, Metapenaeus, Microchela, Micropenaeus, Parapenaeus, Penaeopsis, Penaeus, Pseudobombur, Pseudodusa, Rauna, Rhodanicaris, Satyrocaris, Satyrus, Trachypenaeus
Subtaxa: Libanocaris annettae Libanocaris rogeri
Type: Libanocaris rogeri
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (2 collections)
• Jurassic of Germany (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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