Paralomis debodeorum

{{Short description|Extinct species of king crab}}

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| taxon = Paralomis debodeorum

| fossil_range = Mid-Late Miocene

| authority = Feldmann 1998

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Paralomis debodeorum is an extinct species of king crab which lived in New Zealand during the Middle–Late Miocene.{{Cite journal|last=Feldmann|first=Rodney M.|date=1998|title=Paralomis debodeorum, a new species of decapod crustacean from the Miocene of New Zealand: First notice of the Lithodidae in the fossil record|journal=New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics|volume=41|issue=1|pages=35–38|doi=10.1080/00288306.1998.9514788|issn=0028-8306|doi-access=free|bibcode=1998NZJGG..41...35F }}{{efn|name="FSM2006"}} It was discovered in the Greta Siltstone on Motunau Beach, North Canterbury, near the mouth of the Motunau River. It is a moderate-sized Paralomis and most closely resembles the extant Paralomis zealandica.

It is the first and only lithodid in the fossil record.{{Cite thesis|last=Noever|first=Christopher|title=Coevolution between king crabs (Paguridae: Lithodinae) and parasitic barnacles (Cirripedia: Rhizocephala|date=2017|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Bergen|url=http://bora.uib.no/bitstream/handle/1956/16605/dr-thesis-2017-Christoph-Noever.pdf|page=22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200517090615/http://bora.uib.no/bitstream/handle/1956/16605/dr-thesis-2017-Christoph-Noever.pdf|archive-date=17 May 2020|access-date=17 May 2020}}