Paraeurypterus

Paraeurypterus
Temporal range: Late Ordovician
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. Paraeurypterus is classified as part of the family Dolichopteridae.

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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.