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Xiphosura
Xiphosura is a class of marine chelicerates which includes a large number of extinct lineages and only five recent species in the family Limulidae, which include the horseshoe crabs. The group has hardly changed in millions of years; the modern horseshoe crabs look identical to prehistoric genera such as the Jurassic Mesolimulus, and are considered to be living fossils.
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