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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Family: | Scyllaridae |
| Subfamily: | Ibacinae |
| Genus: | †Palibacus Förster, 1984 |
| Species: | †P. praecursor
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| Binomial name | |
| †Palibacus praecursor (Dames, 1886)
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Ibacus praecursor Dames, 1886 | |
Palibacus praecursor is a fossil species of slipper lobster, the only species in the genus Palibacus.1 It was found in Cenomanian2 (Cretaceous) deposits at Hakel, Lebanon and described in 1886 by the German palaeontologist W. Dames.3 Its similarity to modern slipper lobsters demonstrates that the main features of that group had already evolved by the mid-Cretaceous.4
References
References
- Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
- Reinhard Förster (1985). "Evolutionary trends and ecology of Mesozoic decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 76 (2–3): 299–304. doi:10.1017/s0263593300010518. S2CID 52232092.
- W. Dames (1886). "Ueber einige Crustaceen aus dem Kreideablagerungen des Libanon". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft. 38: 551–576.
- Reinhard Förster (1984). "Bärenkrebse (Crustacea, Decapoda) aus dem Cenoman des Libanon und dem Eozän Italiens". Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie. 24: 57–66.