Paleontologist Discovers First Known Silurian Horseshoe Crab

Ciurcalimulus discobolus, holotype. Scale bars - 5 mm. Image credit: James C. Lamsdell, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2025.0874.

A paleontologist from West Virginia University has described a new genus and species of true horseshoe crab from a Silurian-age specimen unearthed in Indiana, the United States.

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