Dunsopterus

Dunsopterus
Temporal range: Carboniferous
Spines and scales
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Chelicerata
Order:†Eurypterida
Superfamily:†Mycteropoidea
Family:†Hibbertopteridae
Genus:†Dunsopterus
Waterston, 1968
Type species
†Dunsopterus stevensoni
Etheridge Jr, 1877

Dunsopterus is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid classified within the family Hibbertopteridae.[1] The genus contains one species, D. stevensoni, from the Carboniferous of Berwickshire, Scotland.[2]

Dunsopterus may be congeneric with Cyrtoctenus. Dunsopterus is known from very fragmentary material, mainly sclerites which have little diagnostic potential and are poorly known in Cyrtoctenus. Both genera are only known from remains of very large individuals.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Jeram, A. J.; Selden, P. A. (2011). "Eurypterids from the Viséan of East Kirkton, West Lothian, Scotland". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences. 84 (3–4): 301. doi:10.1017/S0263593300006118.
  2. ↑ 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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