Heterolimulus gadeai Vía Boada and Villalta 1966 (horseshoe crab)

Xiphosura - Xiphosurida - Limulidae

Alternative combination: Tachypleus gadeai

Full reference: L. Vía Boada and J. F. Villalta. 1966. Heterolimulus gadeai nov. gen., nov. sp., representante de una nueva familia de Limulacea, en el Triásico español. Acta Geológica Hispánica 1:9-11

Belongs to Heterolimulus according to R. D. C. Bicknell et al. 2021

See also Dunlop et al. 2020, Lamsdell 2020, Lamsdell and McKenzie 2015 and Vía Boada and Villalta 1966

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Montral-Alcover quarries, which is in a Longobardian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Muschelkalk Formation of Spain

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Montral-Alcover quarries

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