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Marsupipterus

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Marsupipterus
Temporal range: Silurian
Scientific classification Edit this 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

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  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).
  2. 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.