Dalmanites limulurus

Taxobox
name = "Dalmanites"

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image_caption = "Dalmanites limulurus"
from New York (USA)
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Trilobita
ordo = Phacopida
superordo = Phacopina
superfamilia = Dalmanitoidea
familia = Dalmanitidae
genus = "Dalmanites"
species = "D. limulurus"
binomial = "Dalmanites limulurus"
binomial_authority = (Green, 1832)

"Dalmanites limulurus" is a species of Silurian trilobite in the order Phacopida. The species name is derived from perceived similarities in appearance to the modern-day horseshoe crab "Limulus". They can be noticed by the prominent, semicircular, schizochroal eyes and by the sharp spike extinding back from the center of the pygidium.

The most famous and detailed specimens of "D. limulurus" are found in the Middle Silurian Rochester Shale Formation of western New York (USA).