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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.- 1 reply
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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.1-60. PDF of above paper from Researchgate Other recent papers (PDF files) about Xiphosurida. Bicknell, R.D., Naugolnykh, S.V. and Brougham, T., 2020. A reappraisal of Paleozoic horseshoe crabs from Russia and Ukraine. The Science of Nature, 107(5), pp.1-17. Bicknell, R.D. and Smith, P.M., 2020. Patesia n. gen., a new Late Devonian stem xiphosurid genus. Palaeoworld. Bicknell, R.D., Hecker, A. and Heyng, A.M., 2021. New horseshoe crab fossil from Germany demonstrates post-Triassic extinction of Austrolimulidae. Geological Magazine, pp.1-11. Lamsdell, J.C., 2020. The phylogeny and systematics of Xiphosura. PeerJ, 8, p.e10431. Open Access Rudkin, D.M. and Young, G.A., 2009. Horseshoe crabs– an ancient ancestry revealed. In Biology and conservation of horseshoe crabs (pp. 25-44). Springer, Boston, MA Yours, Paul H.
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They Put the Bite in Trilobite By Cara Giaimo, New York times, Jan. 30, 2021 Do Trilobites Bite? By Allison Kubo Hutchison , Buzz Blog, Friday, February 12, 2021 Ancient marvels: the first shell-crushing predators ground up their prey between their legs By Katrina Kenny. The Coversation, January 26, 2021 the paper is: Bicknell, R.D., Holmes, J.D., Edgecombe, G.D., Losso, S.R., Ortega-Hernández, J., Wroe, S. and Paterson, J.R., 2021. Biomechanical analyses of Cambrian euarthropod limbs reveal their effectiveness in mastication and durophagy. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1943), p.20202075. PDF of above paper from Researchgate An older, unrelated article about trilobites Why did trilobites go extinct? By Donavyn Coffey, Live Science, November 15, 2020 Yours, Paul H.
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Study confirms horseshoe crabs are really relatives of spiders, scorpions March 9, 2019 by Kelly April Tyrrell, University of Wisconsin-Madison https://phys.org/news/2019-03-horseshoe-crabs-relatives-spiders-scorpions.html Ballesteros, J.A. and Sharma, P.P., 2019. A Critical Appraisal of the Placement of Xiphosura (Chelicerata) with Account of Known Sources of Phylogenetic Error. Systematic Biology. https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sysbio/syz011/5319972 An unrelated article for cat fans is: Scientists have finally discovered what makes celebrity cat Lil Bub so 'magical' It took an international team of geneticists to crack the code of this cat's mystique. by Karin Brulliard, The Washington Post, INFORUM https://www.inforum.com/entertainment/981309-Scientists-have-finally-discovered-what-makes-celebrity-cat-Lil-Bub-so-magical https://www.grandforksherald.com/entertainment/news/4579948-scientists-have-finally-discovered-what-makes-celebrity-cat-lil-bub-so https://phys.org/news/2019-03-reveals-genome-celebrity-cat-lil.html The paper is: Mike Bridavsky et al. Crowdfunded whole-genome sequencing of the celebrity cat Lil BUB identifies causal mutations for her osteopetrosis and polydactyly, (2019). DOI: 10.1101/556761 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/556761v1 Yours, Paul
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