Xaniopyramis

{{Short description|Genus of horseshoe crab relatives}}

{{Taxobox

| fossil_range=early Carboniferous

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| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| subphylum = Chelicerata

| classis = Xiphosura

| ordo = Xiphosurida

| subordo = Limulina

| familia = Moravuridae

| genus = Xaniopyramis

| genus_authority = Siveter & Selden, 1987{{cite journal|doi=10.1111/j.1502-3931.1987.tb02060.x | volume=20 | title=The origin of the limuloids | year=2007 | journal=Lethaia | pages=383–392 | last1 = Selden | first1 = Paul A.| issue=4 }}

|subdivision_ranks = Species

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}}

Xaniopyramis is an extinct genus of xiphosuran, related to the modern horseshoe crab. It lived in the early Carboniferous.

Species

  1. X. linseyi Siveter and Selden, 1987[http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/palaeofiles/fossilgroups/Xiphosura/Fossrec2.html Order Xiphosurida]

Sources

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  • Invertebrate Palaeontology & Evolution by Euan Neilson Kerr Clarkson