Xaniopyramis

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Xaniopyramis
Temporal range: early Carboniferous
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Xiphosurida
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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. ^ Selden, Paul A. (2007). "The origin of the limuloids". Lethaia. 20: 383–392. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1987.tb02060.x.
  2. ^ Order Xiphosurida
  • Invertebrate Palaeontology & Evolution by Euan Neilson Kerr Clarkson

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