Draft:Tachypleus decheni

Tachypleus decheni; Temporal range: Upper Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Tachypleus decheni cast at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Order:	Xiphosura
Family:	Limulidae
Genus:	Tachypleus
Species:	†T. decheni
Binomial name
	†Tachypleus decheni; (Zinken, 1862)
Synonyms
	†Limulus decheni Zinken, 1862;

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Instructions · What links here · Tachypleus decheni (talk: + · bio) · (log) · Copyvios report · reFill · Citation Bot · (Search: Google, Wikipedia) · Submitted 40 days ago by Noears6 (talk: D · +) · Last edited 2 days ago by Zhenghecaris

Comment: GBIF says that the accepted name is Limulus decheni. Palaeodb says "It was recombined as Tachypleus decheni by Lamsdell and McKenzie (2015), Lamsdell (2020), Bicknell et al. (2021)." Don't move to article space until we can establish the accepted name. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 03:15, 20 August 2025 (UTC) In gbif the genus name is limulus since it originally was but it says it's in tachypleus.Houcaris (talk)

Tachypleus decheni is an extinct species of horseshoe crab in the genus Tachypleus that lived in the Borna Formation^[1] of Germany during the Upper Eocene.^{[citation needed]} It is one of two fossil species within the genus Tachypleus.^[2] ^[3] ^[4]

References

^ "†Tachypleus decheni Zinken 1862". The Paleobiology Database.
^ C. Zinken. 1862. Limulus decheni aus dem Braunkohlensandstein bei Teuchern. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 19:329-331
^ "Limulus decheni (Zinken, 1862)".
^ "Tachypleus decheni (Zinken, 1862)".

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[1] "†Tachypleus decheni Zinken 1862". The Paleobiology Database.

[2] C. Zinken. 1862. Limulus decheni aus dem Braunkohlensandstein bei Teuchern. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 19:329-331

[3] "Limulus decheni (Zinken, 1862)".

[4] "Tachypleus decheni (Zinken, 1862)".

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