Parastylonurus

Parastylonurus
Temporal range: Silurian
Restoration of the sixth limb of P. ornatus.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Order: †Eurypterida
Superfamily: †Stylonuroidea
Family: †Parastylonuridae
Genus: †Parastylonurus
Kjellesvig-Waering, 1966
Species
  • †P. hendersoni Waterston, 1979
  • †P. ornatus Laurie, 1892 (type species)
  • †?P. sigmoidalis Kjellesvig-Waering, 1971

Parastylonurus is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid. It is classified within the Parastylonuridae family and contains three species, P. hendersoni and P. ornatus from the Silurian of Scotland and P. sigmoidalis from the Silurian of England.[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 16.0 http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/resources/fossils/Fossils16.0.pdf (PDF).