Marsupipterus

Marsupipterus; Temporal range: Silurian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Subclass:	Phyllocarida
Genus:	†Marsupipterus; Caster & Kjellesvig-Waering, 1955
Type species
	Marsupipterus sculpturatus; Caster & Kjellesvig-Waering, 1955

Marsupipterus is a genus of prehistoric crustacean. The genus contains one species, Marsupipterus sculpturatus, from the Silurian of England. Originally described as an eurypterid, Marsupipterus has since been found to have been a phyllocarid crustacean.

References

↑ 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).
↑ Lamsdell, J. C. (2025). "Codex Eurypterida: a revised taxonomy based on concordant parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 473: 14. doi:10.1206/0003-0090.473.1.1. hdl:2246/7507.

[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, J. C. (2025). "Codex Eurypterida: a revised taxonomy based on concordant parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 473: 14. doi:10.1206/0003-0090.473.1.1. hdl:2246/7507.