Biology:Archeolimulus
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Short description: Species of horseshoe crab relative
Archeolimulus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
(unranked): | Tactopoda |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Order: | †Bradoriida Chlupáč, 1963 |
Genus: | †Archeolimulus Chlupáč, 1963 |
Species: | †A. hanusi
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Binomial name | |
†Archeolimulus hanusi Chlupáč, 1963
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Archeolimulus is a prehistoric xiphosuran, related to the modern horseshoe crab. It is the only genus in the family Archeolimulidae, and was found in the Czech Republic in rocks of Middle Ordovician age.[1]
References
- ↑ J. Bergström (1968). "Eolimulus, a Lower Cambrian xiphosurid from Sweden". Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar 90: 489–503.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q4785899 entry