Prosomapoda
Appearance
Prosomapoda Temporal range: Middle Ordovician – present,
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Fossil of the basal prosomapod Weinbergina | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Clade: | Euchelicerata |
Clade: | Prosomapoda Lamsdell, 2013 |
Groups | |
Prosomapoda is a clade of chelicerates including the groups Xiphosura and Planaterga, as well as several basal stem-genera.[1]
References
- ^ Lamsdell, James C. (2012-12-18). "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.