Hastimima

Hastimima
Temporal range: Permian
~290.1–272.5 Ma Possible Devonian record
Telson (89-92, 94) and coxa (93) of H. whitei.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Order: †Eurypterida
Superfamily: †Mycteropoidea
Family: †Mycteroptidae
Genus: †Hastimima
White, 1908
Type species
Hastimima whitei
White, 1908
Species
  • †?H. sewardi Strand, 1926
  • †H. whitei White, 1908

Hastimima is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid of the family Mycteroptidae.[1] It contains one valid species, Hastimima whitei, recovered from the Permian Hermit Shale of Arizona, and one dubious species, H. sewardi, from the Devonian of South Africa.[2] Though clearly a mycteropoid eurypterid, the material referred to H. sewardi is so fragmentary that it is questionable if it possesses any diagnostic value at all.[3]

  1. ^ Lamsdell, James C. (2012). "Redescription of Drepanopterus pentlandicus Laurie, 1892, the earliest known mycteropoid (Chelicerata: Eurypterida) from the early Silurian (Llandovery) of the Pentland Hills, Scotland". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 103: 77–103. doi:10.1017/S1755691012000072.
  2. ^ Dunlop, J. A.; Penney, D.; Jekel, D. (2018). "A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives" (PDF). World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern.
  3. ^ Dunlop, J. A. (2006). "Embrik Strand's eurypterids". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte.