Erieopterus is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid found in Silurian to Devonian-aged marine and freshwater[1] strata of Europe and North America. The genus contains eight species from the Silurian to the Devonian, recovered from both North America and Europe.[2]
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| Fossils of E. microphthalmus (2-10). | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Order: | †Eurypterida |
| Superfamily: | †Eurypteroidea |
| Family: | †Eurypteridae |
| Genus: | †Erieopterus Kjellesvig-Waering, 1958 |
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| †Erieopterus microphthalmus Hall, 1859
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Species
edit- Erieopterus eriensis (Whitfield, 1882) — Silurian, USA
- Erieopterus hypsophthalmus Kjellesvig-Waering, 1958 — Silurian, USA
- ?Erieopterus laticeps (Schmidt, 1883) — Silurian, Norway
- ?Erieopterus limuloides (Kjellesvig-Waering, 1948) — Silurian, USA
- Erieopterus microphthalmus (Hall, 1859) — Devonian, USA & Canada
- ?Erieopterus phillipsensis Copeland, 1971 — Silurian. Canada
- ?Erieopterus turgidus Stumm & Kjellesvig-Waering, 1962 — Silurian, USA
References
edit- ^ "The Old Red Sandstone of Great Britain (Geological Conservation Review Series No. 31) | JNCC Resource Hub". hub.jncc.gov.uk. Retrieved 2023-08-20.
- ^ 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).
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