Venustulus
Extinct genus of chelicerate from Wisconsin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Venustulus is a genus of synziphosurine,[1] a paraphyletic group of fossil chelicerate arthropods.[2][3] Venustulus was regarded as part of the clade Prosomapoda.[2][4][5][6][3][7] Fossils of the single and type species, V. waukeshaensis, have been discovered in deposits of the Silurian period in Wisconsin, in the United States.[1][2][7] Venustulus is one of the few synziphosurine genera with fossil showing evidence of appendages, the other ones being Weinbergina, Anderella and Camanchia.[1][3] Despite often being aligned close to horseshoe crabs, it has been found that Venustulus and its relatives form a group made up of various basal euchelicerate arthropods more distant to the xiphosurans.[1][2]
Venustulus | |
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Reconstruction of Venustulus waukeshaensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Clade: | Euchelicerata |
Clade: | Prosomapoda |
Genus: | †Venustulus Moore, 2005 |
Type species | |
†Venustulus waukeshaensis Moore, 2005 |