- Lunataspis
Taxobox
name = Lunataspis
fossil_range =Late Ordovician
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
subphylum = Chelicerata
classis =Merostomata
ordo =Xiphosura
familia =Limulidae
genus = "Lunataspis"
species = "L. aurora"
binomial = "Lunataspis aurora"
binomial_authority ="Lunataspis aurora" is the oldest known
Xiphosuran and an ancestor of the modernhorseshoe crab . Fossils found in northernManitoba ,Canada in 2005 have dated "Lunataspis" back to the LateOrdovician . [Chliboyko, J. "Crabby Ancestors", Canadian Geographic Magazine, April 2008, p. 25] "Lunataspis" was formally described in an article published in "Plaeontology".ee also
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2005 in paleontology
*2008 in paleontology
*List of xiphosurans Notes
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