Marsupipterus
Appearance
| Marsupipterus Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Subclass: | Phyllocarida |
| Genus: | †Marsupipterus Caster & Kjellesvig-Waering, 1955 |
| Type species | |
| Marsupipterus sculpturatus Caster & Kjellesvig-Waering, 1955 | |
Marsupipterus is a genus of prehistoric crustacean. The genus contains one species, Marsupipterus sculpturatus, from the Silurian of England.[1] Originally described as an eurypterid, Marsupipterus has since been found to have been a phyllocarid crustacean.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Lamsdell, J. C. (2025). "Codex Eurypterida: a revised taxonomy based on concordant parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 473: 14. doi:10.1206/0003-0090.473.1.1. hdl:2246/7507.