Austrolimulus fletcheri Riek 1955 (arthropod)

Xiphosura - Xiphosurida - Austrolimulidae

Full reference: E. F. Riek. 1955. A new xiphosuran from the Triassic sediments at Brookvale, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23:281-282

Belongs to Austrolimulus according to J. C. Lamsdell 2020

See also Riek 1955

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AM F.38274/5, a carapace. Its type locality is Beacon Hill (AM collection), which is in an Anisian lacustrine - small shale in the Hawkesbury Sandstone Formation of Australia.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Beacon Hill (AM collection)

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