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Prolimulus woodwardi

Xiphosura - Xiphosurida - Belinuridae

Taxonomy
Prolimulus woodwardi was named by Fritsch (1899). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Nýřany (Insect Collection), which is in a Moscovian lacustrine siliciclastic in the Kladno Formation of the Czech Republic. It is the type species of Prolimulus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1899Prolimulus woodwardi Fritsch p. 57 fig. 1
1944Prolimulus woodwardi Raymond p. 503
1955Prolimulus woodwardi Prantl and Přibyl p. 391 figs. Pl 2, figs 1-4
2020Prolimulus woodwardi Lamsdell p. 17

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
subphylumChelicerataHeymons 1901
RankNameAuthor
—EuchelicerataWeygoldt and Paulus 1979
—Prosomapoda
classXiphosura()
orderXiphosuridaLatreille 1802
suborderBelinurina
familyBelinuridae(Zittel and Eastman 1913)
genusProlimulus
specieswoodwardi

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Prolimulus woodwardi Fritsch 1899
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: nektobenthicc
Diet: carnivorec
Vision: limitedo
Created: 2010-02-05 01:13:59
Modified: 2010-02-22 02:35:37
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Jell and Adrain 2002, Bambach et al. 2007

Age range: Moscovian or 315.20000 to 307.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Moscovian315.2 - 307.0Czech Republic (Pilsen) Prolimulus woodwardi (type locality: 128574)