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- Erettopterus is a genus of large predatory eurypterid, an extinct group of aquatic arthropods. Fossils of Erettopterus have been discovered in deposits...
- Størmer the same year, and Erettopterus and Acutiramus would be recognized as separate, but closely related, genera (Erettopterus by Erik N. Kjellesvig-Waering...
- (Pterygotus) and P. (Acutiramus), as well as two subgenera of Erettopterus; E. (Erettopterus) and E. (Truncatiramus). Kjellesvig-Waering placed the primary...
- recently having studied the feeding mechanism of the pterygotid Erettopterus bilobus. Erettopterus possessed only three pairs of slender walking legs (typically...
- Erettopterus waylandsmithi (60 cm, 1.97 ft) Erettopterus osiliensis (90 cm, 2.95 ft)...
- divergent and specialized ecological roles, more basal genera, such as Erettopterus, were more generalized predators. List of eurypterid genera Timeline...
- increasingly diverse, researchers began to name subgenera, such as Pterygotus (Erettopterus), named by John William Salter in 1859 for species of Pterygotus with...
- erroneously ****igned H. banksii to Pterygotus (Erettopterus) based on bilobed telsons of Erettopterus spatulatus that he misidentified as belonging to...
- eurypterids have also been estimated to have reached lengths of 2.5 metres; Erettopterus grandis (closely related to Jaekelopterus) and Hibbertopterus wittebergensis...
- new species of the new genus Himantopterus (a preoccupied name, now Erettopterus) by the English geologist and paleontologist John William Salter. The...