Dorfopterus

Dorfopterus
Temporal range: Devonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Order: Eurypterida
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Dorfopterus
Kjellesvig-Waering, 1955
Type species
Dorfopterus angusticollis
Kjellesvig-Waering, 1955

Dorfopterus is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid with an uncertain classification. The genus contains one species, D. angusticollis, from the Devonian of the United States.[1]

References

  1. Erik N. Kjellesvig-Waering Dorfopterus, a new genus of Eurypterida from the Devonian of Wyoming Journal of Paleontology, July 1955, v. 29, p. 696-697

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