Rhinocarcinosoma

Rhinocarcinosoma; Temporal range: Late Silurian, 418.7–416 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Fossil of R. vaningeni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Order:	†Eurypterida
Superfamily:	†Carcinosomatoidea
Family:	†Carcinosomatidae
Genus:	†Rhinocarcinosoma; Novojilov, 1962
Type species
	Rhinocarcinosoma vaningeni; Clarke & Ruedemann, 1912
Other species
	R. cicerops Clarke, 1907; R. dosonensis Braddy, Selden & Doan Nhat, 2002;

Rhinocarcinosoma is a genus of Silurian eurypterid, with a triangular carapace, laterally positioned eyes, and a curved telson. It is classified as part of the family Carcinosomatidae and contains three species (all Silurian in age), two (R. cicerops and R. vaningeni) from New York, United States[1] and R. dosonensis, a species described in 2002 from the Dô Son Formation of the Dô Son Peninsula of northern Vietnam.[2]

References

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).
Simon J. Braddy, Paul A. Seldon & Doan Nhat Truong (2002). "A new carcinosomatid eurypterid from the Upper Silurian of northern Vietnam" (PDF). Palaeontology. 45: 897–915. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00267.

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[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).

[2] Simon J. Braddy, Paul A. Seldon & Doan Nhat Truong (2002). "A new carcinosomatid eurypterid from the Upper Silurian of northern Vietnam" (PDF). Palaeontology. 45: 897–915. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00267.