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- group of chelicerate arthropods commonly known as "sea scorpions". The megalograptids were likely the first major successful group of eurypterids, evidenced...
- oldest described eurypterid: a giant Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) megalograptid from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte of Iowa". BMC Evolutionary Biology....
- with -graptus (meaning 'writing'). Megalograptus was a large predatory megalograptid eurypterid, with the largest and best known species, M. ohioensis, reaching...
- from the Ordovician period. The earliest eurypterids known today, the megalograptid Pentecopterus, date from the Darriwilian stage of the Middle Ordovician...
- oldest described eurypterid: a giant Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) megalograptid from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte of Iowa", BMC Evolutionary Biology,...
- oldest described eurypterid: a giant Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) megalograptid from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte of Iowa". BMC Evolutionary Biology....
- description of the external morphology. Pentecopterus is diagnosed as a megalograptid retaining a single pair of spines on the third podomere of the third...
- oldest described eurypterid: a giant Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) megalograptid from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte of Iowa". BMC Evolutionary Biology....
- was Acutiramus bohemicus at 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) in length. The largest megalograptid as well as the largest Ordovician eurypterid was Pentecopterus. It reached...
- as slow-swimming ambush predators and mud grubbers, and interprets megalograptids as likely more basal than carcinosomatids and mixopterids. Bicknell...