| image_caption = Life reconstruction of ''Paradoryphoribius''
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'''''Paradoryphoribius''''' is an extinct genus of [[tardigrade]]s from the order [[ParachaelaParachela (tardigrade)|Parachela]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paradoryphoribius Mapalo et al., 2021 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/11378818 |access-date=2022-01-04 |website=www.gbif.org |publisher=[[GBIF]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=New tardigrade genus discovered |url=https://analyticalscience.wiley.com/do/10.1002/was.00020423 |access-date=2022-01-04 |website=Wiley Analytical Science |publisherlast=[[Wiley-Blackwell]]Pool|first=Rebecca |doidate=10.1002/was.0002042311 October 2021 }}</ref> It is the third fossil tardigrade to be named, described in 2021 from [[Miocene]] [[Dominican amber]] from the [[Dominican Republic]]. The type, and currently only species, is '''''P. chronocaribbeus'''''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mapalo |first1=M. A. |last2=Robin |first2=N. |last3=Boudinot |first3=B. E. |last4=Ortega-Hernández |first4=J. |last5=Barden |first5=P. |year=2021 |title=A tardigrade in Dominican amber |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=288 |issue=1960 |pages=Article ID 20211760 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2021.1760 |pmid=34610770 |pmc=8493197 |doi-access=free }}</ref> ''Paradoryphoribius'' is the first extinct tardigrade known from the [[Cenozoic]] and is also the first tardigrade known from the [[Miocene]].<ref name="LS-20211005">{{cite news |last=Lanese |first=Nicoletta |title=Tardigrade trapped in amber is a never-before-seen species |url=https://www.livescience.com/new-tardigrade-species-found-in-amber |date=5 October 2021 |work=[[Live Science]] |accessdateaccess-date=6 October 2021 }}</ref> It has a length of 539 [[micron]]s.
