Paraeurypterus

Paraeurypterus
Temporal range:
Fossil of P. anatoliensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Order: †Eurypterida
Superfamily: †Dolichopteroidea
Family: †Dolichopteridae
Genus: †Paraeurypterus
Lamsdell, Hoşgör & Selden, 2013
Type species
†Paraeurypterus anatoliensis
Lamsdell, Hoşgör & Selden, 2013

Paraeurypterus is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid from the Late Ordovician period. The genus contains one species, P. anatoliensis, known from Şort Tepe in Turkey.[1] Paraeurypterus is classified as part of the family Dolichopteridae.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ Dunlop, J. A., Penney, D. & Jekel, D. 2015. A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives. In World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch, version 16.0 http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/resources/fossils/Fossils16.0.pdf (PDF).
  2. ↑ Lamsdell, James C. (2025). "Codex Eurypterida: A Revised Taxonomy Based on Concordant Parsimony and Bayesian Phylogenetic Analyses". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 2025 (473): 93. doi:10.1206/0003-0090.473.1.1.


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