21154 - Premium Grade Soft Bodied Xiphosurid (Horseshoe Crab Ancestor) Lower Ordovician Phylloceras Neocalmonia
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Description
Neocalmonia
Flabellofolium
Squamata Oppel 1811
Halisaurus (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Maastrichtian of Angola
As all the Elasmobranchii
21154 - Premium Grade Soft Bodied Xiphosurid (Horseshoe Crab Ancestor) Lower Ordovician Phylloceras NeocalmoniaXiphosurans are an order of arthropods related to arachnids, or, according to one recent study, actually arachnids. They are sometimes called horseshoe crabs (a name applied more specifically to the only extant family, Limulidae). They first appeared in the Tremadocian (Lower Ordovician) from Fezouata Fm in South Morocco. Currently, there are only four living species. They are members of the order Xiphosura, which contains two suborders, Xiphosurida