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| genus = Cretapenaeus

| genus = Cretapenaeus

| image = Cretapenaeus berberus.jpg

| image = Cretapenaeus berberus.jpg

| image_caption = Fossil from from [[Oum Tkout]], [[Douira Formation]]

| image_caption = Fossil from [[Oum Tkout]], [[Douira Formation]]

| parent_authority = Garassino, Pasini & Dutheil, 2006

| parent_authority = Garassino, Pasini & Dutheil, 2006

| species = berberus

| species = berberus


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Extinct genus of crustaceans

Cretapenaeus berberus is an extinct species of prawn which existed in Morocco during the Late Cretaceous period. It is the only species in the genus Cretapenaeus.[1]

  1. ^ Alessandro Garassino, Giovanni Pasini & Didier B. Dutheil (2006). “Cretapenaeus berberus n. gen., n. sp. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Penaeidae) from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of southeastern Morocco”. Atti della Società italiana di scienze naturali e del museo civico di storia naturale di Milano. 147. ISSN 0037-8844.

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