''Notahomarus'' is a genus of fossil

lobster Lobsters are a family (biology), family (Nephropidae, Synonym (taxonomy), synonym Homaridae) of marine crustaceans. They have long bodies with muscular tails and live in crevices or burrows on the sea floor. Three of their five pairs of legs ...

belonging to the family Nephropidae that is known from fossils found only in Lebanon. The type species, ''N. hakelensis'', was initially placed within the genus '' Homarus'' in 1878, but it was transferred to the genus ''Notahomarus'' in 2017.

Fossil record

These lobsters are related to the modern-day lobsters. They lived in warm, shallow seas during the

Cenomanian The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the s ...

period (93.9–100.5 m.y.a.). Fossils have been found at fossil sites in Hjoula and

Mayfouq Mayfouq ( ar, ميفوق) is a village and municipality in the Byblos District of Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon. It is located 64 km north of Beirut. Mayfouq has an average elevation of 860 meters above sea level and its total land area ...

, Lebanon.Liliana Póvoas, Pedro Danta
"Homarus hakelensis Fraas 1878 and clupeomorph fishes"
in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2017.

Description

''Notahomarus'' could reach a length of about , with antennae.A. Garasson
The macruran decapod crustaceans of the Upper Cretaceous of Lebanon
Paleontologia Lombarda, Nuova Serie - Vol. Ill - Pl. X

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q30693425 Late Cretaceous crustaceans Fossil taxa described in 2017 True lobsters Fossils of Lebanon Cretaceous Lebanon Late Cretaceous arthropods of Asia