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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Jaekelopterus (redirect from Pterygotus rhenaniae)
other species of Pterygotus. British palaeontologist Charles D. Waterston erected the genus Jaekelopterus in 1964 to accommodate Pterygotus rhenaniae, which...
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Acutiramus (redirect from Pterygotus buffaloensis)
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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Buffalopterus (redirect from Pterygotus globicaudatus)
species †Buffalopterus pustulosus Kjellesvig-Waering & Heubusch, 1962 Synonyms Eurypterus giganteus Pohlman, 1882 Pterygotus globicaudatus Pohlman, 1882...
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Erettopterus (redirect from Pterygotus bilobus)
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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Ciurcopterus (redirect from Pterygotus ventricosus)
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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