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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Order: | †Eurypterida |
| Superfamily: | †Moselopteroidea |
| Family: | †Moselopteridae |
| Genus: | †Moselopterus Størmer, 1974 |
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| †Moselopterus ancylotelson Størmer, 1974 | |
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Moselopterus is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid from the Devonian period in Europe. The genus contains two species, M. ancylotelson from Germany and M. lancmani from Latvia.[1]
A third species, M. elongatus, from the same deposits as M. ancylotelson, was previously recognized.[2] M. elongatus differs from M. ancylotelson only in its larger size and more elongated body, and likely represents an older ontogenetic stage of the same species.[1]
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[edit]- 1 2 Lamsdell, James C. (2025). "Codex Eurypterida: A Revised Taxonomy Based on Concordant Parsimony and Bayesian Phylogenetic Analyses". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 2025 (473): 88. doi:10.1206/0003-0090.473.1.1.
- ↑ Dunlop, J. A., Penney, D. & Jekel, D. 2015. A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives. In World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch, version 16.0 http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/resources/fossils/Fossils16.0.pdf (PDF).
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