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Allolimulus woodwardi
Taxonomy
Limulus woodwardi was named by Watson (1909). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Doddington, near Wellingborough, which is in an Opalinum/Murchisonae marine sandstone in the Northampton Sand Formation of the United Kingdom.
It was recombined as Allolimulus woodwardi by Lamsdell (2020); it was recombined as Mesolimulus woodwardi by Bicknell et al. (2021).
It was recombined as Allolimulus woodwardi by Lamsdell (2020); it was recombined as Mesolimulus woodwardi by Bicknell et al. (2021).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1909 | Limulus woodwardi Watson p. 16 fig. 1 |
| 2020 | Allolimulus woodwardi Lamsdell p. 23 fig. 5F |
| 2021 | Mesolimulus woodwardi Bicknell et al. p. 1530 fig. 6 |
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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.
†Allolimulus woodwardi Watson 1909
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Jell and Adrain 2002, Bambach et al. 2007 | |||||
Age range: base of the Opalinum to the top of the Murchisonae or 174.70000 to 170.90000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Opalinum - Murchisonae | United Kingdom (England) | Limulus woodwardi (216791) |