Marsupipterus

Marsupipterus is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid with an uncertain classification. The genus contains one species, M. sculpturatus, from the Silurian of England.[1]

Marsupipterus
Temporal range: Silurian
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Marsupipterus

Caster & Kjellesvig-Waering, 1955
Type species
Marsupipterus sculpturatus
Caster & Kjellesvig-Waering, 1955

See also

  • List of eurypterids

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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