[Rockhounds] Vaderlimulus - 245-Million-year-old Horseshoe Crab Fossil named after Star War’s Darth Vader.

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Vaderlimulus - 245-Million-year-old Horseshoe Crab Fossil named after Star
War’s Darth Vader. New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science
https://media.newmexicoculture.org/release/664/vaderlimulus-245-million-year-old-horseshoe-crab-fossil-named-afterstar-wars-darth-vader

First Triassic Horseshoe Crab Fossil Found in North America, SciNews
http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/triassic-horseshoe-crab-vaderlimulus-tricki-05532.html

The paper is:

Lerner, A.J., Lucas, S.G. and Lockley, M., 2017. First fossil horseshoe crab
(Xiphosurida) from the Triassic of North America. Neues Jahrbuch für 
Geologie
und Paläontologie-Abhandlungen, pp.289-302.

An open access paper is:

Bicknell, R.D. and Pates, S., 2020. Pictorial atlas of fossil and extant
horseshoe crabs, with focus on Xiphosurida. Frontiers in Earth Science, 
8, p.98.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2020.00098/full?fbclid=IwAR0ANQ468ZvZK4qJFhS3rU5LiOdINsOfFMFJuZbRM_ubhr7OlsZXdcF1DjY

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