Xaniopyramis

<i>Xaniopyramis</i>

Xaniopyramis

Genus of horseshoe crab relatives

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

Quick Facts Xaniopyramis Temporal range: early Carboniferous, Scientific classification ...

Species

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

Sources

  1. [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. [2]
    Order Xiphosurida
  • Invertebrate Palaeontology & Evolution by Euan Neilson Kerr Clarkson


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