''Paraeurypterus'' is a genus of prehistoric
eurypterid
Eurypterids, often informally called sea scorpions, are a group of extinct marine arthropods that form the Order (biology), order Eurypterida. The earliest known eurypterids date to the Darriwilian stage of the Ordovician period, 467.3 Myr, mil ...
from the Late
Ordovician
The Ordovician ( ) is a geologic period and System (geology), system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era (geology), Era, and the second of twelve periods of the Phanerozoic Eon (geology), Eon. The Ordovician spans 41.6 million years f ...
period. The genus contains one species, ''P. anatoliensis'', known from Şort Tepe in
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
. Classified as part of the
Eurypteroidea superfamily, it has not yet been possible to classify it as part of any particular family.
[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).]
See also
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List of eurypterids
This list of eurypterid genera is a comprehensive listing of all Genus, genera that have ever been included in the order Eurypterida, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now c ...
References
Eurypteroidea
Ordovician eurypterids
Ordovician arthropods
Fossil taxa described in 2013
Fossils of Turkey
Eurypterids of Asia
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