- the
suborder Stylonurina.
Mycteropoids have been
recovered from Europe, Russia,
South America and
South Africa.
Mycteropoid specimens are
often fragmentary...
- Mycteropoidea, a rare
group known primarily from
South Africa and Scotland. The
mycteropoids had
evolved a
specialized method of
feeding referred to as sweep-feeding...
- opisthosoma) of
Houia is
unusually enlarged, only
being comparable by some
mycteropoid eurypterids, and may have
acted to
crush more
fortified prey. In 2021...
- Ver****pterus. The
hibbertopterids are
united as a
group by
being large mycteropoids with
broad prosomas, a
hastate telson similar to that of Hibbertopterus...
-
small invertebrates.
Though this
method of
feeding was
present in
other mycteropoids and in stylonuroids, it was at its most
advanced stage within the derived...
-
throughout the
Ordovician and Silurian,
though the
radiation of the
mycteropoids (a
group of
large sweep-feeding forms) in the Late
Devonian and Carboniferous...
- species, H. sewardi, from the
Devonian of
South Africa.
Though clearly a
mycteropoid eurypterid, the
material referred to H.
sewardi is so
fragmentary that...
- long been unclear; however, it is now
apparent that it is a
primitive mycteropoid, and an
early relative of the
Carboniferous Hibbertopterus. Drepanopterus...
- carapace). The
hibbertopterids are
united as a
group by
being large mycteropoids with
broad prosomas, a
hastate (e.g.
shaped like a gladius, a
Roman sword)...
- to the Late Permian.
Mycteroptids were medium-sized to
fairly large mycteropoids with
parabolic prosoma and a
hastate telson with
paired ventral keels...
