Ruedemannipterus

Ruedemannipterus
Temporal range: Silurian
Fossils of Kiaeropterus otisius, Ruedemannipterus stylonuroides and Hughmilleria socialis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Order: †Eurypterida
Superfamily: †Eurypteroidea
Family: †Dolichopteridae
Genus: Ruedemannipterus
Kjellesvig-Waering, 1966
Type species
Ruedemannipterus stylonuroides
Clarke & Ruedemann, 1912

Ruedemannipterus is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid classified as part of the family Dolichopteridae. The genus contains one species, R. stylonuroides,[1] known from the Silurian of New York.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Tetlie, O. E.; Cuggy, M. B. (2007). "Phylogeny of the basal swimming eurypterids (Chelicerata; Eurypterida; Eurypterina)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 5 (3): 345. doi:10.1017/S1477201907002131.
  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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