''Vinetopterus'' 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
Devonian
The Devonian ( ) is a period (geology), geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era during the Phanerozoic eon (geology), eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian per ...
period in
Europe
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classified as part of the
Moselopteridae family. The genus contains two species, both from
Germany
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: ''V. struvei'' and ''V. martini''.
[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
Eurypterina
Devonian eurypterids
Devonian arthropods of Europe
Eurypterids of Europe
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