Eurypterida
Sea Scorpions
- Slimonioidea
- Slimoniidae
- Slimoniidae
- Hughmillerioidea
- Hughmilleriidae
- Carcinosomatidae
- Adelophthalmidae
- Hughmilleriidae
- Mixopteroidea
- Mixopteridae
- Lanarkopteridae
- Mixopteridae
- Megalograptoidea
- Megalograptidae
- Megalograptidae
- Eurypteroidea
- Eurypteridae
- Dolichopteridae
- Erieopteridae
- Eurypteridae
- Stylonuroidea
- Stylonuridae
- Drepanopteridae
- Parastylonuridae
- Laurieipteridae
- Stylonuridae
- Kokomopteroidea
- Kokomopteridae
- Hardieopteridae
- Kokomopteridae
- Brachyopterelloidea
- Brachyopterellidae
- Brachyopterellidae
- Rhenopteroidea
- Rhenopteridae
- Rhenopteridae
- Mycopteropoidea
- Mycteropidae
- Woodwardopteridae
- Mycteropidae
- Pterygotoidea
- Jaekelopteridae
- Pterygotidae
- Jaekelopteridae
- Willwerathia (incertae sedis)
- Tylopterella (incertae sedis)
- Tarsopterella (incertae sedis)
- Pittsfordipterus (incertae sedis)
- Hastimima (incertae sedis)
- Dorfopterus (incertae sedis)
- Melbournopterus (incertae sedis)
References
Braddy, S. J. 2001. Eurypterid palaeoecology: palaeobiological, ichnological and comparative evidence for a 'mass-moult-mate' hypothesis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 172:115-132.
Braddy, S. J., R. J. Aldridge, S. E. Gabbott, and J. N. Theron. 1999. Lamellate book-gills in a late Ordovician eurypterid from the Soom Shale Lagerstätte, South Africa: support for a eurypterid-scorpion clade. Lethaia 32:72-74.
Braddy, S. J. and J. A. Dunlop. 1997. The functional morphology of mating in the Silurian eurypterid, Baltoeurypterus tetragonophthalmus (Fischer, 1839). The Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 121:435-461.
Manning, P. L. and J. A. Dunlop. 1995. The respiratory organs of eurypterids. Palaeontology 38:287-297.
Tollerton, V. P. 1989. Morphology, taxonomy, and classification of the order Eurypterida Burmeister, 1843. Journal of Paleontology 63:642-657.
Information on the Internet
- Simon J. Braddy, University of Bristol investigates the palaeobiology of eurypterids.
- EURYPTERIDS.NET. Samuel J. Ciurca, Jr.
Title Illustrations
- Eurypterus (Eurypteridae)
- Pterygotus (Pterygotidae)
Images from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur published 1899-1904 by Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, Leipzig and Vienna. Scans courtesy of Kurt Stüber's online library of historic and classical biology books.
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