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A horseshoe crab (Arthropoda: Chelicerata: Xiphosura) from the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of Yunnan, China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2012

JAMES C. LAMSDELL ,
JINZHUANG XUE  and
PAUL A. SELDEN
JAMES C. LAMSDELL*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Kansas, 1475 Jayhawk Boulevard, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
JINZHUANG XUE
Affiliation:
The Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China
PAUL A. SELDEN
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Kansas, 1475 Jayhawk Boulevard, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
*
†Author for correspondence: lamsdell@ku.edu
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Abstract

A single specimen of a new species of the synziphosurine Kasibelinurus Pickett, 1993 is described from the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) Xiaxishancun Formation of Yunnan Province, China. The new species, K. yueya sp. nov., extends the geographic extent of the family Kasibelinuridae from the Australian palaeocontinent to the South China palaeocontinent, and the stratigraphic range back some 50 Ma from Late to Early Devonian.

Keywords

palaeobiogeographySouth ChinaKasibelinurussynziphosurinesPalaeozoicpalaeocontinents
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Geological Magazine , Volume 150 , Issue 2 , March 2013 , pp. 367 - 370
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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