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    Pterygotus is an extinct genus of giant predatory eurypterid, a group of extinct aquatic arthropods. Fossils of Pterygotus have been discovered in deposits...
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    other species of Pterygotus. British palaeontologist Charles D. Waterston erected the genus Jaekelopterus in 1964 to accommodate Pterygotus rhenaniae, which...
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    of Acutiramus to be named was A. macropthalmus (as a species of Pterygotus, Pterygotus macrophthalmus) in 1859. The type specimen, the carapace of a young...
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    taxonomically valid in modern times, was Pterygotus (lit. 'winged one'), described by Louis Agassiz in 1839. Pterygotus was considerably larger in size than...
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    species †Buffalopterus pustulosus Kjellesvig-Waering & Heubusch, 1962 Synonyms Eurypterus giganteus Pohlman, 1882 Pterygotus globicaudatus Pohlman, 1882...
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    divide the genus Pterygotus based on the morphology of the telsons of the species that had been assigned to it. He divided Pterygotus into subgenera, including...
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    Grossopterus, and split Pterygotus into two other subgenera, Pterygotus (Pterygotus) and Pterygotus (Erettopterus), designating Pterygotus (Curviramus) as a...
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    the genera Pterygotus, Slimonia, Hastimima and Hughmilleria. Pterygotus had also been designated as containing two subgenera; Pterygotus (Curviramus)...
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    have in the past been assigned to the larger and more derived pterygotid Pterygotus. Some authors have speculated that if the chelicerae of Ciurcopterus are...
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    Monsters. It is shown as aquatic, hunting Cephalaspis and being eaten by Pterygotus. "Fossilworks: Brontoscorpio". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December...
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    British Fossil Crustacea, belonging to the Order Merostomata. Part 1. Pterygotus Anglicus, Agassiz. Pages 1–44. Plates i.–ix. By Henry Woodward, F.G.S...
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  • has provided the following fossils: Trilobita indet. Carcinosoma sp. Pterygotus sp. Mollusca indet. Arthrophycus sp. Cruziana sp. Cubichnia sp. Dimorphichnus...
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    Arcabuco Fm. Dinosaur tracks Valle Alto Fm. Flora Cuche Fm. Antarctilamna Asterolepis Bothriolepis Holoptychius Pterygotus Strepsodus Floresta Fm. Trilobites...
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    Nature Reserve, Dudley UK Eurypterus, a common Upper Silurian eurypterid Pterygotus was a giant eurypterid that had a nearly cosmopolitan distribution (reconstruction...
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    maximus and H. perornatus. Salter described the species Pterygotus acuminata. Page transferred Pterygotus acuminata to its own genus, Slimonia. Page named and...
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    Arcabuco Fm. Dinosaur tracks Valle Alto Fm. Flora Cuche Fm. Antarctilamna Asterolepis Bothriolepis Holoptychius Pterygotus Strepsodus Floresta Fm. Trilobites...
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    Jaekelopterus Megalograptus Megarachne Mixopterus Onychopterella Pentecopterus Pterygotus Slimonia Stylonurus Ichnogenera Arcuites Merostomichnites Palmichnium...
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  • wing"); Pterodactylus ("winged finger"); Eurypterus ("wide wing" or fin); Pterygotus ("winged" or finned); Coleoptera ("sheathed wing"); Archaeopteryx ("ancient...
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    at least half as long as the larger predatory eurypterids of the genus Pterygotus. With Eusarcana not having large and powerful pincers like the larger...
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    Arcabuco Fm. Dinosaur tracks Valle Alto Fm. Flora Cuche Fm. Antarctilamna Asterolepis Bothriolepis Holoptychius Pterygotus Strepsodus Floresta Fm. Trilobites...
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    Jaekelopterus Megalograptus Megarachne Mixopterus Onychopterella Pentecopterus Pterygotus Slimonia Stylonurus Ichnogenera Arcuites Merostomichnites Palmichnium...
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  • scorpion Brontoscorpio, who, in turn, falls victim to the giant eurypterid, Pterygotus. The final segment of the episode, set in the Devonian period, follows...
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  • Bouma sequences. The following fossils were reported from the formation: Pterygotus australis Encrinurus simpliciculus Trilobita indet. Aegiria thomasi ?Leptostrophia...
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  • Arcabuco Fm. Dinosaur tracks Valle Alto Fm. Flora Cuche Fm. Antarctilamna Asterolepis Bothriolepis Holoptychius Pterygotus Strepsodus Floresta Fm. Trilobites...
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    animal quite different from the famous swimming eurypterids (such as Pterygotus and Eurypterus) which had been common during earlier periods. Like all...
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    (1859). On the anatomy and affinities of the genus Pterygotus and description of new species of Pterygotus. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United...
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  • A slimonid eurypterid. Erettopterus bilobus A pterygotid eurypterid. Pterygotus lanarkensis A pterygotid eurypterid. Carcinosoma scorpioides A carcinosomatid...
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  • Jaekelopterus Megalograptus Megarachne Mixopterus Onychopterella Pentecopterus Pterygotus Slimonia Stylonurus Ichnogenera Arcuites Merostomichnites Palmichnium...
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    Arcabuco Fm. Dinosaur tracks Valle Alto Fm. Flora Cuche Fm. Antarctilamna Asterolepis Bothriolepis Holoptychius Pterygotus Strepsodus Floresta Fm. Trilobites...
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    Jaekelopterus Megalograptus Megarachne Mixopterus Onychopterella Pentecopterus Pterygotus Slimonia Stylonurus Ichnogenera Arcuites Merostomichnites Palmichnium...
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