Definition of Eurypterines. Meaning of Eurypterines. Synonyms of Eurypterines

- North America and Europe. Seventy-five percent of eurypterid species are eurypterines; this represents 99% of specimens. The superfamily Pterygotioidea is...
- Only two families of eurypterines survived into the Late Devonian at all (Adelophthalmidae and Waeringopteridae). The eurypterines experienced their most...
- originally misidentified as a spider Adelophthalmus was the only genus of eurypterine eurypterid that survived past the Devonian Due to its large and compact...
- Onychopterella is also the type genus of the basal ("primitive") family of eurypterines Onychopterellidae together with Alkenopterus and Tylopterella, characterized...
- clade. The diploperculate eurypterine clade had prior to its description been noted as a monophyletic group of derived eurypterines that form a sister-taxon...
- Eurypteroidea) because they lack the synapomorphy of all more derived swimming eurypterines; namely, the modified distal margin of the sixth podomere of the swimming...
- 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...
- 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...
- eurypterids in their own right. Though longer eurypterids are known from the eurypterine suborder, notably the largest known arthropod of all time, Jaekelopterus...
- generated by the sixth pair of appendages, the swimming legs used by other eurypterine eurypterids. Whilst stiff dorsally, fossil evidence suggests that Slimonia...