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    Eurypterid (redirect from Eurypterida)
    scorpions, are a group of extinct marine arthropods that form the order Eurypterida. The earliest known eurypterids date to the Darriwilian stage of the...
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    "Les scorpions de mer (les Eurypterida)" (in French). Paleopedia. Retrieved May 23, 2011. Roy Plotnick. "Eurypterida". Access Science. doi:10.1036/1097-8542...
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    Merostomata is a class of chelicerate arthropods that contains the extinct Eurypterida (sea scorpions) and the extant Xiphosura (horseshoe crabs). The term...
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  • scorpion may refer to: Eurypterids, extinct arthropods in the order Eurypterida Some fish in the family Cottidae, such as: Long-spined sea scorpion (Taurulus...
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    and American paleontologist Rudolf Ruedemann in their influential The Eurypterida of New York in 1912, though no distinguishing features of the fossils...
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    (Xiphosura) and/or sea scorpions (Eurypterida), while more recent studies suggest that they form a clade (Dekatriata) with Eurypterida and Arachnida. Chasmataspidids...
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    eurypterid research Kjellesvig-Waering, Erik N. (1961). "The Silurian Eurypterida of the Welsh Borderland". Journal of Paleontology. 35 (4): 789–835. JSTOR 1301214...
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    (horseshoe crabs) and Eurypterida (sea scorpions, extinct). The extinct Chasmataspidida may be a sub-group within Eurypterida. The Pycnogonida (sea spiders)...
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    animals without book lungs such as ticks and harvestmen. The extinct Eurypterida, sometimes called sea scorpions, though they were not all marine, are...
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    reference to the Eurypterida, some have urged that this usage should be discouraged. The Merostomata label originally did not include Eurypterida, although they...
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    planatergan chelicerates including the groups Arachnida, Chasmataspidida, Eurypterida and additionally two stem-genera Winneshiekia and Houia. Dekatriata is...
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    ; Legg, David A. (2010). "An isolated pterygotid ramus (Chelicerata: Eurypterida) from the Devonian Beartooth Butte Formation, Wyoming". Journal of Paleontology...
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    The Salina Group or Salina Formation is a Late Silurian-age, stratigraphic unit of sedimentary rock that is found in Northeastern and Midwestern North...
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    Salter in 1859. Parahughmilleria salteri Kjellesvig-Waering, 1961 [Order: Eurypterida]. Reported from the Temeside Mudstone Formation (Přídolí epoch) of Ludlow...
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    The largest prehistoric animals include both vertebrate and invertebrate species. Many of them are described below, along with their typical range of size...
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    was so unusual that they have been thought to be an order separate to Eurypterida. Recent work however confirms them to be derived members of the suborder...
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    systematics and phylogeny of the Stylonurina (Arthropoda: Chelicerata: Eurypterida)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 8 (1): 49–61. Bibcode:2010JSPal...
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  • telson (the posteriormost division of the body) unlike any other in the Eurypterida. Beginning with an expanded and flattened section, like that of Slimonia...
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    Poduromorpha Order Symphypleona Order Neelipleona Order Xiphosurida Order †Eurypterida Order †Chasmataspidida Subclass Acari (Mites) Order Opilioacariformes...
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    1912 (Eurypterida)". Journal of Paleontology. 38 (2): 331–361. JSTOR 1301554. Kjellesvig-Waering, Erik N. (1961). "The Silurian Eurypterida of the Welsh...
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    (Phosphatocopina) Other examples of now extinct arthropod groups include Acutiramus (Eurypterida) Apankura (Euthycarcinoidea) Trimerus (Artiopoda) Concavicaris (Thylacocephala)...
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    Opiliones, as well as in non-arachnid Chelicerata such as the Xiphosura and Eurypterida. The chelifores of the Pycnogonida may be homologous to chelicerae. Engel...
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    List of eurypterid genera (category Eurypterida)
    comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the order Eurypterida, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted...
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    Timeline of eurypterid research Lamsdell, James C. (11 June 2025). "Codex Eurypterida: A Revised Taxonomy Based on Concordant Parsimony and Bayesian Phylogenetic...
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    Silurian Eurypterida of the Welsh Borderland". Journal of Paleontology. 35 (4): 789–835. JSTOR 1301214. Kjellesvig-Waering, Erik N. (1964). "Eurypterida: Notes...
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    morphology but defining differences: Class Xiphosura (horseshoe crabs); class Eurypterida (the extinct eurypterids); class Arachnida (spiders, scorpions, ticks...
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    Lower Devonian (Lower Emsian) of Alken an der Mosel, Germany. Part 4: Eurypterida, Drepanopteridae, and other groups". Senckenbergiana Lethaea. 54: 359–451...
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    while the postabdomen was narrow. The telson was a curved spine. Order Eurypterida Burmeister, 1843 Superfamily Carcinosomatoidea Burmeister, 1845 Family...
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    PMID 19828493. Supplemental material. Clarke, J. K., Ruedemann R. (1912) "The Eurypterida of New York" Størmer, L. 1955. Merostomata. Treatise on Invertebrate...
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    & Derek E. G. Briggs (2008). "Ecdysis in sea scorpions (Chelicerata: Eurypterida)". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 265 (3–4): 182–194...
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