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Grossopterus is a
genus of
prehistoric eurypterid classified as part of the
family Waeringopteridae. The
genus contains two species, G.
inexpectans from...
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Katian (Late Ordovician) age and the
latest known surviving member,
Grossopterus, has been
recovered from
deposits of
Siegenian (Early Devonian) age....
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paleontologists Hans-Peter
Schultze and
Klaus Fahlbusch. The
genus Grossopterus was
named in Gross'
honor by
fellow paleontologist Leif Størmer. Cloutier...
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Waeringopterus Grossopterus...
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Waeringopterus Grossopterus...
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genera Hastimima,
Hughmilleria and Slimonia, and the
newly named Grossopterus, to
their own
family within the Eurypteracea, Hughmilleriidae, leaving...
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considered the
genera Hastimima,
Slimonia and
Hughmilleria and the new
genus Grossopterus sufficiently distinct from
Pterygotus to be in a
family of
their own...
- chelicerae. The same year (1935), Leif Størmer
named a new
pterygotid genus,
Grossopterus, and
split Pterygotus into two
other subgenera,
Pterygotus (Pterygotus)...
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emended the
family in 1951, when the
genera Hastimima, Hughmilleria,
Grossopterus and
Slimonia were
referred to
their own family, the Hughmilleriidae,...
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Waeringopterus Grossopterus...
