Limuloides

Limuloides is a genus of planatergan, a clade of chelicerate arthropods. Fossils of the genus have been discovered in deposits of the Silurian period in the United Kingdom and potentially in the United States. Limuloides is one of the two members of the family Bunodidae, the other being Bunodes.[1][2][3]

Limuloides
Temporal range: Silurian
Restoration of the species L. limuloides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Clade: Prosomapoda
Clade: Planaterga
Family: †Bunodidae
Genus: †Limuloides
Woodward, 1865
Type species
†Limuloides limuloides
Woodward, 1865
Species
  • †?L. eriensis Clarke, 1924
  • †L. limuloides Woodward, 1865
  • †L. horridus Woodward, 1872
  • †L. salweyi Woodward, 1872
  • †L. speratus Woodward, 1872
Synonyms
  • Hemiaspis Woodward, 1865, preoccupied

References
  1. Dunlop, J. A.; Penney, D.; Jekel, D. (2018). "A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives" (PDF). World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. pp. 1–296.
  2. Lamsdell, James C. (2013). "Revised systematics of Palaeozoic 'horseshoe crabs' and the myth of monophyletic Xiphosura". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 167 (1): 1–27. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00874.x. ISSN 0024-4082.
  3. Clarke, John Mason. "A hemiaspidan crustacean from the New York Silurian waterlimes". New York State Museum Bulletin. 254: 119–120.


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