| Lanarkopterus Temporal range: Late Silurian, Ludlow epoch,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Order: | †Eurypterida |
| Superfamily: | †Carcinosomatoidea |
| Family: | †Mixopteridae |
| Genus: | †Lanarkopterus Ritchie, 1968 |
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| Lanarkopterus dolichoschelus Peach and Horne, 1899
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Lanarkopterus is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid with one recognised species, Lanarkopterus dolichoschelus. Lanarkopterus was long seen as a species of the closely related Mixopterus, though more complete specimens discovered in the 1960s determined that it differed in several aspects, enough to warrant a separate genus.[1]
Specimens of the genus have been recovered from deposits of Late Silurian age in Scotland.
- ^ Ritchie, Alexander (1968). "Lanarkopterus dolichoschelus (Størmer) gen. nov., a mixopterid eurypterid from the Upper Silurian of the Lesmahagow and Hagshaw Hills inliers, Scotland". Scottish Journal of Geology. 4 (4): 317–338. doi:10.1144/sjg04040317. ISSN 0036-9276.