''Paracancrinos'' is a prehistoric genus of

crustacean Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group ...

that lived during the

Upper Cretaceous The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous Series. The Cretaceous is named after ''creta'', the ...

in what is now Lebanon. It contains a single species, ''P. libanensis'', which was originally described as a species of ''

Cancrinos ''Cancrinos'' is a genus of fossil crustacean closely allied with the slipper lobsters. One species is known, ''C. claviger'' from the Jurassic of southern Germany. Taxonomy Fossils of ''Cancrinos'' are rare, and their state of preservation is ...

'' in 2006, but was moved to its own genus in 2016.{{cite journal , last1=Haug , first1=Joachim T. , last2=Audo , first2=Denis , last3=Charbonnier , first3=Sylvain , last4=Palero , first4=Ferran , last5=Petit , first5=Gilles , last6=Abi Saad , first6=Pierre , last7=Haug , first7=Carolin , title=The evolution of a key character, or how to evolve a slipper lobster , journal=Arthropod Structure & Development , date=2016 , volume=45 , issue=2 , pages=97–107 , doi=10.1016/j.asd.2015.08.003, pmid=26319267 , url=https://hal-univ-rennes1.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01191654/file/The%20evolution%20of%20a%20key%20character.pdf

References

Achelata Crustaceans described in 2006 Fossil taxa described in 2006 Late Cretaceous crustaceans Fossil taxa described in 2016 Late Cretaceous arthropods of Asia Fossils of Lebanon Cretaceous Lebanon Cenomanian genera