Xiphosura - Xiphosurida - Paleolimulidae

Alternative combination: Paleolimulus woodae

Full reference: A. J. Lerner, S. G. Lucas, and C. F. Mansky. 2016. The earliest paleolimulid and its attributed ichnofossils from the Lower Mississippian (Tournaisian) Horton Bluff Formation of Blue Beach, Nova Scotia, Canada. Neues Jarbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 280:193-214

Belongs to Norilimulus according to J. C. Lamsdell 2020

See also Lerner et al. 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CM-9483, a carapace

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Blue Beach (BBFM collection) (Carboniferous of Nova Scotia)

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