Selenichnites
| Selenichnites Temporal range:
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Trace fossil classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Order: | Xiphosura |
| Ichnogenus: | Selenichnites Romano and Whyte, 1987 |
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| †S. hundalensis Romano and Whyte, 1987
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Selenichnites (‘moon track’horseshoe crabs).
The ichnogenus was originally named Selenichnus in 1987 by M. Romano and M. Whyte, but these investigators renamed it as Selenichnites in 1990 after it was pointed out that the name Selenichnus was already in use for a genus of reptile trace fossils.[4]
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