Remarkable preservation of a new genus and species of limuline horseshoe crab from the Cretaceous of Texas,USA |
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| Authors: | RODNEY M FELDMANN CARRIE E SCHWEITZER BENJAMIN DATTILO JAMES O FARLOW |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Geology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA;2. e‐mail: rfeldman@kent.edu;3. Department of Geology, Kent State University at Stark, 6000 Frank Avenue NW, North Canton, OH 44720, USA;4. e‐mail: cschweit@kent.edu;5. Department of Geosciences, Purdue University Fort Wayne, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd, Fort Wayne, IN 46805‐1499, USA;6. e‐mails: ben.dattilo@gmail.com;7. farlow@ipfw.edu |
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| Abstract: | 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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| Keywords: | Xiphosurida Chelicerata Limulidae Albian Cretaceous Texas |
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