Panduralimulus babcocki Allen and Feldmann 2005 (horseshoe crab)

Xiphosura - Xiphosurida - Austrolimulidae

Full reference: J. G. Allen and R. M. Feldmann. 2005. Panduralimulus babcocki n. gen. and sp., a new limulacean horseshoe crab from the Permian of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 79(3):594-600

Belongs to Panduralimulus according to J. C. Lamsdell 2020

See also Allen and Feldmann 2005 and Lamsdell 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: USNM 520723, a carapace. Its type locality is Mabelle, 15 km NE of Seymour, Baylor County, which is in a Kungurian marginal marine shale in the Lueders Formation of Texas.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Mabelle, 15 km NE of Seymour, Baylor County

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