The job of the pivot table is to summarize your source data table based on the criteria you specify in the filter fields (Report Filter, Column Labels, and Row Labels). You can think of it as a very advanced way to arrange and filter your data.
The Limulidae are the only recent family of the order Xiphosura, and contain all four living species of horseshoe crabs: 1  Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda, the mangrove horseshoe crab, found in Southeast Asia. 2  Limulus polyphemus, the Atlantic horseshoe crab, found along the American Atlantic coast and in the Gulf of Mexico.
Dating back to the Paleozoic era, the horseshoe crab existed on Earth before the dinosaurs and soldiered on through several mass extinction events. In 2008, a horseshoe crab fossil, the oldest in existence found so far, dated back to around 445 million years ago, according to a report by LiveScience. 1  Share on Facebook. 2  Tweet this article.