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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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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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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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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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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