Merostomata, such as the horseshoe crab, reproduce by having the male fertilize the females eggs. The female horseshoe crab can lay up to 60,000 eggs at a time which she buries in the sand after they have been fertilized.

Limulus belongs to the class Merostomata, commonly known as horseshoe crabs.

Charles D. Walcott has written:

'Relations of the national government to higher education and research' -- subject(s): Education and state

'Cambrian and ozarkian brachiopoda, ozarkian cephalopoda and notostraca (with plates 106 to 126)' -- subject(s): Brachiopoda, Fossil, Fossil Brachiopoda, Paleontology

'On the Cambrian faunas of North America' -- subject(s): Fossil Arthropoda, Paleontology

'Cambro-Ordovician boundary in British Columbia with description of fossils' -- subject(s): Paleontology

'Dikelocephalus and other genera of the dikelocephalinae' -- subject(s): Paleontology

'Addenda to descriptions of Burgess shale fossils' -- subject(s): Paleontology, Shale

'Pre-Cambrian rocks of the Bow River Valley, Alberta, Canada' -- subject(s): Paleontology

'Notes on structure of neolenus' -- subject(s): Paleontology

'Cambrian Brachiopoda' -- subject(s): Fossil Brachiopoda, Paleontology

'Nineteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior 1897-98' -- subject(s): Forest reserves, Forests and forestry

'Middle Cambrian merostomata' -- subject(s): Fossil Merostomata, Merostomata, Fossil, Paleontology

'Abrupt appearance of the Cambrian fauna on the North American continent' -- subject(s): Paleontology

'The Cambrian faunas of Eastern Asia' -- subject(s): Paleontology

'Middle Cambrian branchiopoda, malacostraca, trilobita, and merostomata' -- subject(s): Branchiopoda, Fossil, Fossil Branchiopoda, Fossil Malacostraca, Malacostraca, Fossil, Merostomata, Paleontology, Trilobites

'The Sardinian Cambrian genus olenopsis in America' -- subject(s): Fossil Olenopsis, Olenopsis, Fossil, Paleontology

'The Albertella Fauna in British Columbia and Montana' -- subject(s): Paleontology

'Pre-devonian paleozoic formations of the Cordilleran provinces of Canada' -- subject(s): Geology, Stratigraphic, Stratigraphic Geology

'Cambrian geology and paleontology' -- subject(s): Stratigraphic Geology, Paleontology

'Cambrian sections of the cordilleran area' -- subject(s): Paleontology

'Nomenclature of some Cambrian cordilleran formations' -- subject(s): Paleontology

'The trilobite' -- subject(s): Trilobites

'Fauna of the mount whyte formation (with plates 8 to 13)' -- subject(s): Paleontology

'The North American continent during Cambrian time' -- subject(s): Geology, Geology, Stratigraphic, Stratigraphic Geology

'Olenellus and other genera of the mesonacidae' -- subject(s): Olenellus, Paleontology