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- preceding Ordovician, eurypterine eurypterids experienced a rapid rise in diversity and number. In most Silurian fossil beds, eurypterine eurypterids account...
- extinct group of chelicerate arthropods commonly known as "sea scorpions". Eurypterine eurypterids are sometimes informally known as "swimming eurypterids"...
- originally misidentified as a spider Adelophthalmus was the only genus of eurypterine eurypterid that survived past the Devonian Due to its large and compact...
- clade. The diploperculate eurypterine clade had prior to its description been noted as a monophyletic group of derived eurypterines that form a sister-taxon...
- eurypterids in their own right. Though longer eurypterids are known from the eurypterine suborder, notably the largest known arthropod of all time, Jaekelopterus...
- Pentecopterus. It reached up to 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in) in length. All these were eurypterine eurypterids. The largest stylonurine eurypterid was Hibbertopterus, with...
- Onychopterella is also the type genus of the basal ("primitive") family of eurypterines Onychopterellidae together with Alkenopterus and Tylopterella, characterized...
- bodies of water or swimming through them. Unlike some highly derived eurypterines, Mixopterus is not thought to have been a good swimmer and it likely...
- generated by the sixth pair of appendages, the swimming legs used by other eurypterine eurypterids. Whilst stiff dorsally, fossil evidence suggests that Slimonia...
- Appendage VI modified into a paddle that strikingly resemble to those of a eurypterine (swimming eurypterid) was discovered in some species of Diploaspididae...