Mixopterus

Mixopterus
Temporal range: Late Silurian, 426.2–416 Ma
Fossil of M. kiaeri exhibited at the Moscow Paleontological Museum.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Order: †Eurypterida
Superfamily: †Carcinosomatoidea
Family: †Mixopteridae
Genus: †Mixopterus
Ruedemann, 1921
Type species
†Mixopterus multispinosus
Ruedemann, 1921
Species
  • †M. kiaeri Størmer, 1934
  • †M. multispinosus Ruedemann, 1921
  • †M. simonsoni Schmidt, 1883

Mixopterus is a genus of eurypterid, an extinct group of aquatic arthropods. Fossils of Mixopterus have been discovered in deposits from Late Silurian age, and have been referred to several different species. Fossils have been recovered from two continents; Europe and North America.[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 18.5 http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/resources/fossils/Fossils18.5.pdf (PDF).