Tylopterella
| Tylopterella Temporal range: Ordovician–Upper Carboniferous | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Chelicerata |
| Order: | †Eurypterida |
| Family: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Tylopterella Størmer, 1951 |
Tylopterella is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid which lived from the Ordovician to the Upper Carboniferous period. It is of uncertain taxonomic placement within the order Eurypterida.
Tylopterella is distinguishable by its small size, and its thick, partly calcareous exoskeleton with curved ridges of confluent tubercules and large knobs near the median line. Its prosoma (head) has a raised margin.[1]
One species may be recognised:
- Tylopterella boyli (Whiteaves, 1884) – Silurian, USA & Canada
A second species, Tylopterella menneri (Novojilov, 1959), was described from Devonian of Talmyr, Russia; however, it was subsequently reinterpreted as a member of Chasmataspidida rather than a eurypterid, an assigned to a separate genus Dvulikiaspis.[2]
References
- ↑ Størmer, L. 1955. Merostomata. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part P Arthropoda 2, Chelicerata, P34.
- ↑ David J. Marshall, James C. Lamsdell, Evgeniy Shpinev, Simon J. Bradd (2013). "A diverse chasmataspidid (Arthropoda: Chelicerata) fauna from the Early Devonian (Lochkovian) of Siberia". Palaeontology. in press. doi:10.1111/pala.12080.