Class
Xiphosura Latreille, 1802
horseshoe crabs
Selection of related publications
Lamsdell, J. C. 2013. Revised systematics of Palaeozoic ‘horseshoe crabs’ and the myth of monophyletic Xiphosura. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 167, 1, 1-27. DOI:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00874.x
Jackson, R. T. 1906. A new species of Fossil Limulus from the Jurassic of Sweden. Arkiv För Zoologi 3, 11, 1-7.
Nieszkowski, J. 1859. Zusätze zur Monographie der Trilobiten der Ostseeprovinzen, nebst der Beschreibung einiger neuen obersilurischen Crustaceen. Archiv für die Naturkunde Liv-, Ehst- und Kurlands 2, 2, 345-384.
List of species
1. Bunodes lunula Eichwald, 1854 | Rootsiküla Stage
2. Bunodes rugosus Nieszkowski, 1859 | Rootsiküla Stage
3. Exapinurus schrenkii (Nieszkowski, 1859) | Rootsiküla Stage
4. Limulus nathorsti Jackson, 1906, nomen dubium | Jurassic
6. Pseudoniscus aculeatus Nieszkowski, 1859 | Rootsiküla Stage
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Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Kingdom | Animalia |
| Phylum | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum | Chelicerata |
| Superclass | Euchelicerata |
| Class | Arachnida |
| Merostomata | |
| Pycnogonida | |
| Xiphosura | |
| Family | Xiphosurida |
| Order | Eurypterida |