Xaniopyramis
Temporal range: early Carboniferous
Scientific classification
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Limulina
Family:
Moravuridae
Genus:
Xaniopyramis

Siveter & Selden, 1987[1]

Xaniopyramis is an extinct genus of xiphosuran, related to the modern horseshoe crab. It lived in the early Carboniferous.

Species

  1. X. linseyi Siveter and Selden, 1987[2]

Sources

  1. โ†‘ Selden, Paul A. (2007). "The origin of the limuloids". Lethaia. 20: 383โ€“392. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1987.tb02060.x.
  2. โ†‘ Order Xiphosurida
  • Invertebrate Palaeontology & Evolution by Euan Neilson Kerr Clarkson


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