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    Slimonia is a genus of eurypterid, an extinct group of aquatic arthropods. Fossils of Slimonia have been discovered in deposits of Silurian age in South...
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    Slimonidae (the name deriving from the type genus Slimonia, which is named in honor of Welsh fossil collector and surgeon Robert Slimon) is a family of...
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    based on the nine best-known pterygotid species and two outgroup taxa (Slimonia acuminata and Hughmilleria socialis). Jaekelopterus had previously been...
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  • Salteropterus is assumed to have been quite similar to its close relative Slimonia, but the fragmentary nature of the fossil remains of Salteropterus make...
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  • al. (2018). A study on the lateral tail flexibility in the eurypterid Slimonia acuminata published by Persons & Acorn (2017) is criticized by Lamsdell...
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    Clarke & Rudolf Ruedemann to constitute a group for the genera Pterygotus, Slimonia, Hastimima and Hughmilleria. Pterygotus would also designated as containing...
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    order Entomostraca, closely related to horseshoe crabs. A fourth genus, Slimonia, based on fossil remains previously assigned to a new species of Pterygotus...
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    Rudolf Ruedemann in 1912 to include the eurypterid genera Pterygotus, Slimonia, Hughmilleria and Hastimima. The three latter genera would be reclassified...
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    20 cm (8 in), being surpassed by other members of its superfamily, such as Slimonia acuminata, which measured 100 cm (39 in) in length, and Pterygotus grandidentatus...
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    members of the family with features of close relatives of the group, such as Slimonia. Measuring 70 centimetres (28 inches) in length, Ciurcopterus was relatively...
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