| Casterolimulus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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| Casterolimulus kletti from the Fox Hills Formation | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Order: | Xiphosura |
| Genus: | †Casterolimulus Holland, Erickson & O'Brien, 1975 |
| Species: | †C. kletti
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| Binomial name | |
| †Casterolimulus kletti Holland, Erickson & O'Brien, 1975
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Casterolimulus is an extinct genus of xiphosuran.1 It is known from the Late Cretaceous Fox Hills Formation of North America, and is believed to have lived in freshwater environments. It belongs to the family Limulidae, and is considered a close relative of Victalimulus, which is from the Early Cretaceous of Australia.2
References
References
- F. D. Holland Jr. (1975). "Casterolimulus: a new late Cretaceous generic link in limulid lineage". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 67 (287): 235–246.
- Lamsdell, James C. (March 2021). "A new method for quantifying heterochrony in evolutionary lineages". Paleobiology. 47 (2): 363–384. Bibcode:2021Pbio...47..363L. doi:10.1017/pab.2020.17. ISSN 0094-8373.