# Palibacus

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{{Short description|Extinct genus of crustaceans}}
{{Speciesbox
| fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Cenomanian}}
| image = Palibacus_praecursor.JPG
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| 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](/source/fossil) [species](/source/species) of [slipper lobster](/source/slipper_lobster), the only species in the genus '''''Palibacus'''''.<ref name="Grave">{{cite journal |journal=[Raffles Bulletin of Zoology](/source/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](/source/Cenomanian)<ref>{{cite journal |title=Evolutionary trends and ecology of Mesozoic decapod crustaceans |author=Reinhard Förster |journal=[Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh](/source/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](/source/Cretaceous)) deposits at [Hakel](/source/Hakel), [Lebanon](/source/Lebanon) and described in 1886 by the German [palaeontologist](/source/Paleontology) 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](/source/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](/source/evolution) 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](/source/Mitteilungen_der_Bayerischen_Staatssammlung_f%C3%BCr_Pal%C3%A4ontologie_und_historische_Geologie) |volume=24 |pages=57–66 |url=https://archive.org/details/mitteilungenderb242519841985baye}}</ref>

==References==
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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

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