Stoermeropterus
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Order: | †Eurypterida |
| Superfamily: | †Moselopteroidea |
| Family: | †Moselopteridae |
| Genus: | †Stoermeropterus Lamsdell, 2011 |
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| †Stoermeropterus conicus Laurie, 1892 | |
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Stoermeropterus is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid from the Silurian period in Europe and North America classified as part of the Moselopteridae family. The genus contains three species, S. conicus and S. latus from Ringerike, Norway and S. nodosus from West Virginia.[1]
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[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).
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