First Triassic Horseshoe Crab Fossil Found in North America

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Vaderlimulus - 245-Million-year-old Horseshoe Crab Fossil named after Star

War’s Darth Vader. New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science

 

First Triassic Horseshoe Crab Fossil Found in North America, SciNews

 

The paper is:

 

Lerner, A.J., Lucas, S.G. and Lockley, M., 2017. First fossil horseshoe crab

(Xiphosurida) from the Triassic of North America. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie

und Paläontologie-Abhandlungen, pp.289-302.

 

An open access paper is:

Bicknell, R.D. and Pates, S., 2020. Pictorial atlas of fossil and extant

horseshoe crabs, with focus on Xiphosurida. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, p.98.

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[Sjfriend]

That is nice but looking at the photo I would have thought it was a trilobite!