Tasmaniolimulus patersoni Bicknell 2019 (arthropod)

Xiphosura - Xiphosurida - Austrolimulidae

Full reference: R. D. C. Bicknell. 2019. Xiphosurid from the Upper Permian of Tasmania confirms Palaeozoic origin of Austrolimulidae. Palaeontologia Electronica 22(3):1-15

Belongs to Tasmaniolimulus according to J. C. Lamsdell 2020

See also Bicknell 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UTGD 123979, a cephalon/head. Its type locality is 50 km west of Poatina, which is in an Induan fluvial-lacustrine shale in the Jackey Shale Formation of Australia.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at 50 km west of Poatina

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