IRMNG taxon details
basis of record
Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. note: as Xiphosura [details]
taxonomy source
Lamsdell, J. C. (2012). Revised systematics of Palaeozoic 'horseshoe crabs' and the myth of monophyletic Xiphosura. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 167(1): 1-27., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00874.x [details]
extant flag source
Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. [details]
habitat flag source
Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. [details]
Unreviewed
Descriptive info Benton, 1993 habitat flag(s): M; stratigraphic range: Silurian (Ludlow) [details]
Taxonomic remark Previously allocated to Xiphosura, however appear to be a sister taxon to that group. Lamsdell, 2012 states: Xiphosura sensu stricto is itself the sister group to a clade named Planaterga nom. nov. consisting of bunodids, pseudoniscids, chasmataspidids, eurypterids, and arachnids ... At present there is not enough data to indicate whether pseudoniscids and bunodids form a paraphyletic grade leading to Dekatriata nom. nov. [=Chasmataspidids, eurypterids and arachnids] or if they are themselves a diverse and previously unrecognized order of chelicerates. [details]
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