Archeolimulus

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Archeolimulus
Temporal range: Middle Ordovician
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Kingdom: Animalia
Clade: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Order: Bradoriida
Chlupáč, 1963
Genus: Archeolimulus
Chlupáč, 1963
Species:
A. hanusi
Binomial name
Archeolimulus hanusi
Chlupáč, 1963

Archeolimulus is a prehistoric arthropod that was described from the Czech Republic in rocks of Middle Ordovician age. [1] Although it was described as xiphosuran, related to the modern horseshoe crab, it is later considered as bradoriid instead. [2]

References

  1. J. Bergström (1968). "Eolimulus, a Lower Cambrian xiphosurid from Sweden". Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar . 90 (4): 489–503. doi:10.1080/11035896809454937.
  2. Lamsdell, James C. (2020-12-04). "The phylogeny and systematics of Xiphosura". PeerJ. 8 e10431. doi: 10.7717/peerj.10431 . ISSN   2167-8359. PMC   7720731 . PMID   33335810.