Pterygotus is a genus of giant predatory eurypterid, a group of extinct aquatic arthropods. Fossils of Pterygotus have been discovered in deposits ranging...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Monsters. It is shown as aquatic, hunting Cephalaspis and being eaten by Pterygotus. "Fossilworks: Brontoscorpio". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December...
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Antarctilamna Asterolepis Bothriolepis Cheiracanthoides Colombialepis Colombiaspis Florestacanthus 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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Antarctilamna Asterolepis Bothriolepis Cheiracanthoides Colombialepis Colombiaspis Florestacanthus 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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(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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wing"); Pterodactylus ("winged finger"); Eurypterus ("wide wing" or fin); Pterygotus ("winged" or finned); Coleoptera ("sheathed wing"); Archaeopteryx ("ancient...
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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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Nanahughmilleria norvegica Pterygotus (Erettopterus) Erettopterus holmi Stylonuroides dolichopteroides Mixopterus sp. Nanahughmilleria sp. Pterygotus sp. Crustaceans...
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Jaekelopterus Megalograptus Megarachne Mixopterus Onychopterella Pentecopterus Pterygotus Slimonia Stylonurus Ichnogenera Arcuites Merostomichnites Palmichnium...
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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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Bouma sequences. The following fossils were reported from the formation: Pterygotus australis Encrinurus simpliciculus Trilobita indet. Aegiria thomasi ?Leptostrophia...
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Antarctilamna Asterolepis Bothriolepis Cheiracanthoides Colombialepis Colombiaspis Florestacanthus Holoptychius Pterygotus Strepsodus Floresta Fm. Trilobites...
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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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Antarctilamna Asterolepis Bothriolepis Cheiracanthoides Colombialepis Colombiaspis Florestacanthus Holoptychius Pterygotus Strepsodus Floresta Fm. Trilobites...
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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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of Slimonia, S. acuminata, was first described as a species of Pterygotus, "Pterygotus acuminata" (acuminata being Latin for "sharp" or "tapering"), by...
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in the rock and fossil records. 1844 Agassiz described the new genus Pterygotus. 1859 Dawson described the new genus Prototaxites . 1881 Whiteaves described...
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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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their fragmentary nature. Though no specification was given as to why, Pterygotus hibernicus (a species described from Ireland by British paleontologist...
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