Lanarkopteridae is an extinct family of eurypterids. The family contains two genera: Lanarkopterus and Terropterus.[1]
| Lanarkopteridae Temporal range: | |
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| Lanarkopterus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Order: | †Eurypterida |
| Infraorder: | †Diploperculata |
| Superfamily: | †Carcinosomatoidea |
| Family: | †Lanarkopteridae Tollerton, 1989 |
| Genera | |
Under previous classification schemes, the lanarkopterids were sometimes classified as part of the family Mixopteridae.[2]
References
edit- ↑ Lamsdell, James C. (2025). "Codex Eurypterida: A Revised Taxonomy Based on Concordant Parsimony and Bayesian Phylogenetic Analyses". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 2025 (473): 116. doi:10.1206/0003-0090.473.1.1.
- ↑ 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).
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