Xaniopyramis
{{Short description|Genus of horseshoe crab relatives}}
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| 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
| subdivision =
}}
Xaniopyramis is an extinct genus of xiphosuran, related to the modern horseshoe crab. It lived in the early Carboniferous.
Species
Sources
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- Invertebrate Palaeontology & Evolution by Euan Neilson Kerr Clarkson
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080615211043/http://www.palaeos.com/Invertebrates/Arthropods/Chelicerata/Merostomata/Xiphosura.html Xiphosura] at Palaeos.com
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Category:Mississippian arthropods
Category:Prehistoric chelicerate genera
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