AN EFFACED HORSESHOE CRAB (ARTHROPODA: CHELICERATA: XIPHOSURA) FROM THE UPPER CARBONIFEROUS OF THE CARNIC ALPS (FRIULI, NE ITALY)

Autor:	PAUL A. SELDEN, LUCA SIMONETTO, GIORDANO MARSIGLIO
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Belinuridae blindness Kasimovian Pennsylvanian. Geology QE1-996.5 Paleontology QE701-760
Zdroj:	Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, Vol 125, Iss 2 (2019)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	0035-6883 2039-4942
DOI:	10.13130/2039-4942/11517
Popis:	A carapace of a new horseshoe crab (Arthropoda: Chelicerata: Xiphosura) is described from the Upper Carboniferous (Kasimovian) Meledis Formation of the Carnic Alps, Friuli, Italy. It is named as Stilpnocephalus pontebbanus n. gen. & n. sp., and belongs to the family Belinuridae Zittel in Zittel & Eastman, 1913. The large (>8 cm width) carapace is strongly effaced and appears to lack eyes. The new specimen is the first fossil horseshoe crab to be described from Italy and the largest known belinurid.
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