''Palaeobenthesicymus'' is an extinct genus of

prawns Prawn is a common name for small aquatic crustaceans with an exoskeleton and ten legs (which is a member of the order decapoda), some of which can be eaten. The term "prawn"Mortenson, Philip B (2010''This is not a weasel: a close look at nature ...

which existed in what is now

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...

in the Late

Santonian The Santonian is an age in the geologic timescale or a chronostratigraphic stage. It is a subdivision of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series. It spans the time between 86.3 ± 0.7 mya (million years ago) and 83.6 ± 0.7 mya. The ...

. It was described by Denis Audo and Sylvain Charbonnier in 2013, as a new genus for the species ''Penaeus libanensis'', first described by P. Brocchi in 1875.

References

Dendrobranchiata Late Cretaceous crustaceans Monotypic arthropod genera Cretaceous Lebanon Fossils of Lebanon Late Cretaceous arthropods of Asia Santonian genera {{paleo-crustacean-stub