Palibacus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of crustaceans}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Cenomanian}} | image = Palibacus_praecursor.JPG | image_caption = | display_parents = 2 | genus = Palibacus | parent_authority = Förster, 1984 | species = praecursor | authority = (Dames, 1886) | synonyms = ''Ibacus praecursor'' <small>Dames, 1886</small> }}

'''''Palibacus praecursor''''' is a fossil species of slipper lobster, the only species in the genus '''''Palibacus'''''.<ref name="Grave">{{cite journal |journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |year=2009 |volume=Suppl. 21 |pages=1–109 |title=A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans |author1=Sammy De Grave |author2=N. Dean Pentcheff |author3=Shane T. Ahyong |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |display-authors=etal |archive-date=2011-06-06 |access-date=2010-03-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064728/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was found in Cenomanian<ref>{{cite journal |title=Evolutionary trends and ecology of Mesozoic decapod crustaceans |author=Reinhard Förster |journal=Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |volume=76 |pages=299–304 |year=1985 |issue=2–3 |url=http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/28069/28069.pdf |doi=10.1017/s0263593300010518|s2cid=52232092 }}</ref> (Cretaceous) deposits at Hakel, Lebanon and described in 1886 by the German palaeontologist W. Dames.<ref>{{cite journal |author=W. Dames |year=1886 |title=Ueber einige Crustaceen aus dem Kreideablagerungen des Libanon |journal=Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft |volume=38 |pages=551–576 |url=https://archive.org/details/zeitschriftderd164gesegoog}}</ref> Its similarity to modern slipper lobsters demonstrates that the main features of that group had already evolved by the mid-Cretaceous.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Reinhard Förster |year=1984 |title=Bärenkrebse (Crustacea, Decapoda) aus dem Cenoman des Libanon und dem Eozän Italiens |journal=Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie |volume=24 |pages=57–66 |url=https://archive.org/details/mitteilungenderb242519841985baye}}</ref>

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Category:Slipper lobsters Category:Late Cretaceous crustaceans Category:Monotypic prehistoric decapod genera Category:Late Cretaceous arthropods of Asia Category:Cretaceous Lebanon Category:Fossils of Lebanon Category:Cenomanian genera Category:Fossil taxa described in 1984