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Pterygotus is an
extinct genus of
giant predatory eurypterid, a
group of
extinct aquatic arthropods.
Fossils of
Pterygotus have been
discovered in deposits...
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other species of
Pterygotus.
British palaeontologist Charles D.
Waterston erected the
genus Jaekelopterus in 1964 to
accommodate Pterygotus rhenaniae, which...
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taxonomically valid in
modern times, was
Pterygotus (lit. 'winged one'),
described by
Louis Ag****iz in 1839.
Pterygotus was
considerably larger in size than...
- of
Acutiramus to be
named was A.
macropthalmus (as a
species of
Pterygotus,
Pterygotus macrophthalmus) in 1859. The type specimen, the
carapace of a young...
- Grossopterus, and
split Pterygotus into two
other subgenera,
Pterygotus (
Pterygotus) and
Pterygotus (Erettopterus),
designating Pterygotus (Curviramus) as a...
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divide the
genus Pterygotus based on the
morphology of the
telsons of the
species that had been ****igned to it. He
divided Pterygotus into subgenera, including...
- have in the past been ****igned to the
larger and more
derived pterygotid Pterygotus. Some
authors have
speculated that if the
chelicerae of
Ciurcopterus are...
- the
genera Pterygotus, Slimonia,
Hastimima and Hughmilleria.
Pterygotus had also been
designated as
containing two subgenera;
Pterygotus (Curviramus)...
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species †Buffalopterus
pustulosus Kjellesvig-Waering & Heubusch, 1962
Synonyms Eurypterus giganteus Pohlman, 1882
Pterygotus globicaudatus Pohlman, 1882...
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British Fossil Crustacea,
belonging to the
Order Merostomata. Part 1.
Pterygotus Anglicus, Ag****iz.
Pages 1–44.
Plates i.–ix. By
Henry Woodward, F.G.S...
