Erieopterus

Erieopterus is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid found in Silurian to Devonian-aged marine strata of Europe and North America. The genus contains eight species from the Silurian to the Devonian, recovered from both North America and Europe.[1]

Erieopterus
Temporal range: Silurian–Devonian
Fossils of E. microphthalmus (2-10).
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Order: †Eurypterida
Superfamily: †Eurypteroidea
Family: †Eurypteridae
Genus: †Erieopterus
Kjellesvig-Waering, 1958
Type species
†Erieopterus microphthalmus
Hall, 1859
Species

See text

Species
  • Erieopterus eriensis (Whitfield, 1882) — Silurian, USA
  • Erieopterus hypsophthalmus Kjellesvig-Waering, 1958 — Silurian, USA
  • ?Erieopterus laticeps (Schmidt, 1883) — Silurian, Norway
  • ?Erieopterus limuloides (Kjellesvig-Waering, 1948) — Silurian, USA
  • Erieopterus microphthalmus (Hall, 1859) — Devonian, USA & Canada
  • ?Erieopterus phillipsensis Copeland, 1971 — Silurian. Canada
  • ?Erieopterus turgidus Stumm & Kjellesvig-Waering, 1962 — Silurian, USA

References
  1. Dunlop, J. A., Penney, D. & Jekel, D. 2015. A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives. In World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch, version 16.0 http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/resources/fossils/Fossils16.0.pdf (PDF).
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