Limuloides

Limuloides is a genus of synziphosurine, a paraphyletic group of fossil chelicerate arthropods.[1][2] Limuloides was regarded as part of the clade Planaterga.[1][3][4][5][2][6] Fossils of the genus have been discovered in deposits of the Silurian period in the United Kingdom and potentially in the United States. Limuloides is one of the two members of the family Bunodidae, the other being Bunodes.[6][1][7] Limuloides was once though to have lateral compound eyes on its carapace, but later investigation did not find any evidence of it.[8]

Limuloides
Temporal range: Silurian
Restoration of the species L. limuloides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Clade: Prosomapoda
Clade: Planaterga
Family: †Bunodidae
Genus: †Limuloides
Woodward, 1865
Type species
†Limuloides limuloides
Woodward, 1865
Species
  • †?L. eriensis Clarke, 1924
  • †L. limuloides Woodward, 1865
  • †L. horridus Woodward, 1872
  • †L. salweyi Woodward, 1872
  • †L. speratus Woodward, 1872
Synonyms
  • Hemiaspis Woodward, 1865, preoccupied

References
  1. Lamsdell, James 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. ISSN 0024-4082.
  2. Bicknell, Russell D. C.; Pates, Stephen (2020). "Pictorial Atlas of Fossil and Extant Horseshoe Crabs, With Focus on Xiphosurida". Frontiers in Earth Science. 8. doi:10.3389/feart.2020.00098. ISSN 2296-6463.
  3. Selden, Paul A.; Lamsdell, James C.; Qi, Liu. "An unusual euchelicerate linking horseshoe crabs and eurypterids, from the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of Yunnan, China". Zoologica Scripta. 44 (6): n/a–n/a. ISSN 0300-3256.
  4. Lamsdell, James C.; Briggs, Derek E. G.; Liu, Huaibao P.; Witzke, Brian J.; McKay, Robert M. (2015). "A new Ordovician arthropod from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte of Iowa (USA) reveals the ground plan of eurypterids and chasmataspidids". The Science of Nature. 102 (9–10): 63. doi:10.1007/s00114-015-1312-5. ISSN 0028-1042.
  5. Bicknell, Russell D. C.; Lustri, Lorenzo; Brougham, Tom (2019-12-01). "Revision of "Bellinurus" carteri (Chelicerata: Xiphosura) from the Late Devonian of Pennsylvania, USA". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 18 (8): 967–976. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2019.08.002. ISSN 1631-0683.
  6. Dunlop, J. A.; Penney, D.; Jekel, D. (2018). "A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives" (PDF). World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. pp. 1–296.
  7. Clarke, John Mason. "A hemiaspidan crustacean from the New York Silurian waterlimes". New York State Museum Bulletin. 254: 119–120.
  8. Bicknell, Russell D. C.; Amati, Lisa; Ortega-Hernández, Javier (2019-11-14). "New insights into the evolution of lateral compound eyes in Palaeozoic horseshoe crabs". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 187 (4): 1061–1077. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz065. ISSN 0024-4082.


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