Family

Xiphosurida Latreille, 1802

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

5. Palaeomerus hamiltoni Størmer, 1956

6. Pseudoniscus aculeatus Nieszkowski, 1859 | Rootsiküla Stage

Classification

Organism group	Biota
Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Subphylum	Chelicerata
Class	Xiphosura
Family	Xiphosurida
Subfamily	Limuloidea
	Planaterga
Genus	Kiaeria
	Palaeomerus