• This list of xiphosurans is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the order Xiphosura, excluding purely vernacular terms...
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    Xiphosura (redirect from Xiphosuran)
    underside of the opisthosoma. Xiphosurans move to shallow water to mate. The male climbs onto the back of the female, gripping her with his first pair of walking...
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    VI of Chasmataspis. the appendage bore exopod-like structure on the base and terminated with a chelate (pincer), similar to those of a xiphosuran. On...
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      Missassigned genus Timeline of eurypterid research List of xiphosuran genera List of trilobite genera List of ammonite genera List of prehistoric malacostracans...
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    cordifomnis, K. lithographicum, K. minusculum and K. walchi. List of xiphosuran genera Timeline of pterosaur research Trace fossil Mortichnia Martin, Anthony...
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    the Xiphosurida (the only monophyletic xiphosuran group) and other stem-genera. The internal classification of eurypterids within the Eurypterida is based...
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    Jaekelopterus (category Devonian animals of Europe)
    Extant xiphosurans hatch without the full complement of adult opisthosomal appendages (appendages attached to the opisthosoma, the posterior segments of the...
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  • 2018 in arthropod paleontology (category Pages with listed invalid ISBNs)
    Society of Edinburgh. 108 (1): 99–110. doi:10.1017/S1755691018000142. S2CID 135183999. E. S. Shpinev; D. V. Vasilenko (2018). "First fossil xiphosuran (Chelicerata...
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  • developmental patterns of xiphosurans is published by Lustri et al. (2023), who find evidence of changes in the allometric growth of xiphosurans related to adaptations...
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    Venustulus (category Fossils of the United States)
    a group made up of various basal euchelicerate arthropods more distant to the xiphosurans. Venustulus is the third largest member of its grouping just...
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    Necrogammarus (category Silurian arthropods of Europe)
    of asterozoans (the group that includes starfish and brittle stars) compromising at least 16 distinct species. Other local fauna includes xiphosurans...
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    the Xiphosurida (the only monophyletic xiphosuran group) and other stem-genera. A recent phylogenetic analysis of the chelicerates places the Xiphosura...
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    Maldybulakia (category Prehistoric arthropod genera)
    myriapod-like animal, and later considered related to the xiphosurans, or an artiopod. In 1992, the type species of Maldybulakia is described from the Pragian to...
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    Borchgrevinkium (category Devonian animals of Asia)
    Antarctica. He compared it with the then xiphosuran genus Weinbergina, assuming that Borchgrevinkium was also a xiphosuran. However, the Norwegian paleontologist...
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    Horseshoe crabs are arthropods of the family Limulidae and are the only surviving xiphosurans. Despite their name, they are not true crabs or crustaceans...
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  • 2024 in arthropod paleontology (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of October 2024)
    new morphological data interpret as supporting the interpretation of the Triassic genera Mirabairdia and Nodobairdia as distinct from the extant genus Triebelina...
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  • of Lunataspis, the earliest known xiphosuran, are discovered in Canada. It was not given a formal description until 2008, however. Data courtesy of George...
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    Woodward created the subclass Merostomata to contain eurypterids and xiphosurans. Ernst Haeckel classified the Merostomata (containing virtually only...
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  • 2020 in arthropod paleontology (category Pages with listed invalid ISBNs)
    distribution of this genus. A putative xiphosuran Kiaeria is reinterpreted as a member of Chasmataspidida by Lamsdell (2020a). A study on the anatomy of head...
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    Willwerathia (category Prehistoric arthropod genera)
    Lamsdell, James C. (2020-09-01). "A chasmataspidid affinity for the putative xiphosuran Kiaeria Størmer, 1934". PalZ. 94 (3): 449–453. doi:10.1007/s12542-019-00493-8...
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    Cornuboniscus (category Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera)
    "Xiphosurans from the Westphalian D of the Radstock Basin, Somerset Coalfield, the South Wales Coalfield and Mazon Creek, Illinois". Proceedings of the...
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    Unionopterus (category Fossils of Kazakhstan)
    (and merostomate, an outdated group that encompassed eurypterids and xiphosurans) of the entire Soviet Union after Adelophthalmus carbonarius. This specimen...
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    Pruemopterus (category Eurypterids of Europe)
    willwerathensis) and early xiphosurans (genus Willwerathia). Eurypterids are especially diverse in these deposits, accounting for five genera in addition to Pruemopterus:...
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    Moltrasio Formation (category Geologic formations of Italy)
    sediment pore waters. List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Italy Calcare di Sogno, Toarcian fossiliferous formation of Lombardy Saltrio Formation...
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    Onychopterella (category Eurypterids of North America)
    possessed four pairs of vertically oriented lamellate book gills (possibly for aquatic respiration), instead of five pairs like the xiphosuran Limulus as previously...
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    Eusarcana (category Devonian arthropods of Europe)
    crustaceans, xiphosurans, gastropods and anaspid fish Birkenia. In Silurian deposits of New York, E. scorpionis occurs together with a diverse fauna of eurypterids...
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    estuarine strata from about 390 Ma. It was up to 2.5 m (8.2 ft) long. Xiphosurans, the group including modern Horseshoe crabs appeared around 480 Ma. Extant...
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    well as those of other arthropods, such as crustaceans and xiphosurans; the capture and cutting of food into smaller pieces and transport of food into the...
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    Adelophthalmus (category Eurypterids of Asia)
    were vertically oriented. This and a fossil of the xiphosuran Tachypleus syriacus suggest that the book gills of A. pyrrhae underwent a taphonomic deformation...
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  • tricki, providing new information on the anatomy of this xiphosuran and representing the first record of muscles in an austrolimulid reported to date, is...
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