Mycterops

Mycterops
Temporal range: Upper Carboniferous
Figure by Edward Drinker Cope of the carapace and part of the abdomen of M. ordinatus from its 1886 description
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Order: Eurypterida
Superfamily: Mycteropoidea
Family: Mycteroptidae
Genus: Mycterops
Cope, 1886
Type species
Mycterops ordinatus
Cope, 1886
Species
  • †?M. blairi Waterston, 1968
  • M. matthieui Pruvost, 1924
  • M. ordinatus Cope, 1886
  • †?M. whitei Schram, 1984
Synonyms
  • Glaucodes Pruvost, 1923

Mycterops is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid of the family Mycteroptidae. Mycterops lived during the Carboniferous period in Europe and North America.