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Palaeocambarus
Extinct genus of crustaceans / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Palaeocambarus is an extinct genus of crayfish discovered in the Yixian Formation in China, with only a single species, P. licenti. It is one of the oldest known fossil crayfish.[1][2][3]
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Specimen from the Yixian Formation of China | |
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Genus: | †Palaeocambarus Taylor et al., 1999 |
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Astacus licenti Van Straelen, 1928 | |
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The genus Cricoidoscelosus is now considered to be a junior synonym.[1] It was initially believed to be Late Jurassic (Tithonian) in age,[3] but it is now confirmed to have been Early Cretaceous (Barremian-Aptian) in age.[2]