Xaniopyramis

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Xaniopyramis
Temporal range: early Carboniferous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Chelicerata
Class:
Xiphosura
Order:
Xiphosurida
Suborder:
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.

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Species

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

Sources

  1. ↑ Selden, Paul A. (2007). "The origin of the limuloids". Lethaia. 20 (4): 383–392. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1987.tb02060.x.
  2. ↑ "Order Xiphosurida". Archived from the original on 2016-08-09. Retrieved 2016-07-01.


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