| Prosomapoda Temporal range:
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| Cryptocellus goodnighti, a ricinuleid arachnid | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Clade: | Euchelicerata |
| Clade: | Prosomapoda Lamsdell, 2013 |
| Groups | |
Prosomapoda is a clade of euchelicerates including the groups Xiphosura (horseshoe crabs) and Planaterga (a group comprising bunodids, pseudoniscids, chasmataspidids, eurypterids and arachnids), as well as several basal synziphosurid genera.[1] The clade is defined by the lack of exopods (outer branches) of prosomal appendage II-V in the adult instar,[1] where in contrast the exopods of appendage II-V are well-developed in the non-prosomapod euchelicerates Offacolus and Dibasterium.[2][3]
- ^ a b Lamsdell, James C. (2012-12-18). "Revised systematics of Palaeozoic 'horseshoe crabs' and the myth of monophyletic Xiphosura". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 167 (1): 1–27. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00874.x. ISSN 0024-4082.
- ^ Sutton, Mark D.; Briggs, Derek E. G.; Siveter, David J.; Siveter, Derek J.; Orr, Patrick J. (2002-06-22). "The arthropod Offacolus kingi (Chelicerata) from the Silurian of Herefordshire, England: computer based morphological reconstructions and phylogenetic affinities". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. 269 (1497): 1195–1203. doi:10.1098/rspb.2002.1986. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 1691018. PMID 12065034.
- ^ Briggs, Derek E. G.; Siveter, Derek J.; Siveter, David J.; Sutton, Mark D.; Garwood, Russell J.; Legg, David (2012-09-25). "Silurian horseshoe crab illuminates the evolution of arthropod limbs". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (39): 15702–15705. Bibcode:2012PNAS..10915702B. doi:10.1073/pnas.1205875109. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 3465403. PMID 22967511.