| Orcanopterus Temporal range: Late Ordovician,
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| Reconstruction of O. manitoulinensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Order: | †Eurypterida |
| Superfamily: | †Waeringopteroidea |
| Family: | †Waeringopteridae |
| Genus: | †Orcanopterus Stott et al., 2005 |
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| †Orcanopterus manitoulinensis Stott et al., 2005
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Orcanopterus is a genus of a eurypterid classified as part of the family Waeringopteridae. The genus contains one species, O. manitoulinensis, from the Ordovician of Manitoulin, Canada.[1]
- ^ Tetlie, O. E.; Poschmann, M. (2008). "Phylogeny and palaeoecology of the Adelophthalmoidea (Arthropoda; Chelicerata; Eurypterida)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 6 (2): 237. doi:10.1017/S1477201907002416.