Malacostraca - Decapoda - Penaeidae
Full reference: M.F. Glaessner. 1945. Cretaceous Crustacea from Mount Lebanon, Syria. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12(11):694-706
Belongs to Penaeus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Glaessner 1945
Sister taxa: Penaeus arambourgi, Penaeus barmerensis, Penaeus bolcensis, Penaeus cornappensis, Penaeus esculentus, Penaeus furensis, Penaeus glaessneri, Penaeus hamleti, Penaeus kapurdii, Penaeus latisulcatus, Penaeus maddeni, Penaeus obtusus, Penaeus plebejus, Penaeus sharpii, Penaeus smyrnacus, Penaeus sorbinii, Penaeus spectabilis, Penaeus tenuicauda, Penaeus vanzii, Penaeus vernassensis, Penaeus wenasogensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Sahil Alma (BMNH collection), which is in a Santonian carbonate lime mudstone in Lebanon
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Sahil Alma (BMNH collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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