Acutiramus

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Acutiramus
Fossil range: Late Silurian - Early Devonian

Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Merostomata
Order: Gigantostraca
Superfamily: Pterygotoidea
Family: Pterygotidae
Genus: Pterygotus
Subgenus: Acutiramus
Species
  • A. bohemicus Barrande, 1872
  • A. buffaloensis Pohlman, 1881
  • A. cummingsi
  • A. macrophthalmus

Acutiramus is an extinct genus of eurypterid which lived in the Late Silurian (Ludlow) to Early Devonian.

Acutiramus was one of the largest eurypterids with pincers 5 cm and length about 2 m. Also it was relative with Pterygotus.

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