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Article: Remarkable preservation of a new genus and species of limuline horseshoe crab from the Cretaceous of Texas, USA

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 54
Part: 6
Publication Date: November 2011
Page(s): 1337 1346
Author(s): Rodney M. Feldmann, Carrie E. Schweitzer, Benjamin Dattilo and James O. Farlow
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FELDMANN, R. M., SCHWEITZER, C. E., DATTILO, B., FARLOW, J. O. 2011. Remarkable preservation of a new genus and species of limuline horseshoe crab from the Cretaceous of Texas, USA. Palaeontology54, 6, 1337–1346.

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Abstract

A single specimen, part and counterpart of a carapace, of a horseshoe crab from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Glen Rose Formation in north-central Texas, forms the basis for the definition of a new genus and species, Crenatolimulus paluxyensis. The discovery represents only the fifth limuline known from the Cretaceous. Its preservational style is remarkable in that the carapace exterior is faithfully replicated by a massive overgrowth of serpulid worms.
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