Biology:Tylopterella

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Tylopterella
Temporal range: Silurian
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Fossil Tylopterella boylei
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Tylopterella

Størmer, 1951
Type species
Tylopterella boylei
Whiteaves, 1884

Tylopterella is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid classified as part of the family Onychopterellidae. The genus contains one species, T. boylei, from the Silurian of Ontario, Canada .[1] A second species, ‘Tylopterella’ menneri, was described from Devonian of Taymyr, Russia ; however, it was subsequently reinterpreted as a member of Chasmataspidida rather than a eurypterid, an assigned to a separate genus Dvulikiaspis.[2]

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.[3]

See also

  • List of eurypterids

References

  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).
  2. 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. 
  3. Størmer, L. 1955. Merostomata. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part P Arthropoda 2, Chelicerata, P34.

Wikidata ☰ Q7860281 entry