Xiphosura - Xiphosurida - Limulidae

Alternative combination: Tarracolimulus reiki

Full reference: A. Romero and L. Vía. 1977. Tarracolimulus rieki, nov. gen., nov. sp., nuevo limúlido del Triásico de Montreal–Alcover (Tarragona). Cuadernos Geología Ibérica 4:239-246

Belongs to Tarracolimulus according to R. D. C. Bicknell et al. 2021

See also Lamsdell 2016, Lamsdell 2020 and Romero and Vía 1977

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Museo Geologica del Seminario de Barcelona, M-262. Its type locality is Montral-Alcover quarries, which is in a Longobardian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Muschelkalk Formation of Spain.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Montral-Alcover quarries

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