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24-JUN-2012

This complete male Cretaceous horseshoe crab in ventral view shows preservation of limbs and book gills. It's 14.5 cm long.

This specimen comes from the Cenomanian of Nammoura, Lebanon.

See: Tachypleus syriacus (Woodward)—a sexually dimorphic Cretaceous crown limulid reveals underestimated horseshoe crab divergence times

I had only just learned about sexual dimorphism in modern Tachypleus last Thursday when I saw large males and females displayed on a wall in Kampung Ayer, Brunei. I then remembered the two indentations visible in this Lebanese specimen, something I have owned for many years now. A search revealed the 2015 paper by Lamsdell and McKenzie.

There's a new paper on the limbs by Bicknell et al. 2019. On the appendicular anatomy of the xiphosurid Tachypleus syriacus and the evolution of fossil horseshoe crab appendages.

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