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Silurian age in China.
Terropterus was the
earliest known and
largest mixopterid eurypterid.
Fossil specimens referred to T.
xiushanensis are estimated...
- (ranging in size from less than 10
centimeters to over 30 centimeters)
mixopterid eurypterid that like its
close relative Mixopterus appeared almost scorpion-like...
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interprets megalograptids as
likely more
basal than
carcinosomatids and
mixopterids. Bicknell,
Gaines &
Hopkins (2024)
describe a
carcinosomatid specimen...
- Lei, Xiaojie; Jarzembowski,
Edmund A.; Wang, Bo (November 2021). "First
mixopterid eurypterids (Arthropoda: Chelicerata) from the
Lower Silurian of South...
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Fossil of Mixopterus, a
mixopterid....
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Alexander (1968-12-01). "Lanarkopterus
dolichoschelus (Størmer) gen. nov., a
mixopterid eurypterid from the
Upper Silurian of the
Lesmahagow and
Hagshaw Hills...
- Zhikun; Lei, Xiaojie; Jarzembowski,
Edmund A.; Wang, Bo (2021). "First
mixopterid eurypterids (Arthropoda: Chelicerata) from the
Lower Silurian of South...
- saw the
megalograptids again considered to be
close relatives of the
mixopterids and carcinosomatids. The
phylogenetic analysis accompanying the description...
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scorpions as arachnids, not eurypterids,
making this
claim unlikely.
Mixopterids were
characterized by
large exoskeletons with
scattered tubercles or...
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deeper waters. This is in
sharp contrast to
their closest relatives, the
mixopterids,
which are not
known from
deeper waters. The only
other eurypterid family...
