''Paraeurypterus'' is a genus of prehistoric

eurypterid Eurypterids, often informally called sea scorpions, are a group of extinct arthropods that form the Order (biology), order Eurypterida. The earliest known eurypterids date to the Darriwilian stage of the Ordovician period 467.3 Myr, million yea ...

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. The Ordovician spans 41.6 million years from the end of the Cambrian Period million years ago (Mya) to the start ...

period. The genus contains one species, ''P. anatoliensis'', known from Şort Tepe in

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. Classified as part of the

Eurypteroidea Eurypteroidea are an extinct superfamily of eurypterids. It contains three families ( Dolichopteridae, Eurypteridae, Strobilopteridae) and two genera of uncertain classification, '' Paraeurypterus'' and '' Pentlandopterus''. Description Eurypte ...

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).

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Eurypteroidea Ordovician eurypterids Ordovician arthropods Fossil taxa described in 2013 Fossils of Turkey Eurypterids of Asia {{eurypterid-stub

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