Pagea Temporal range:
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Carapace of Pagea symondsii. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Order: | †Eurypterida |
Superfamily: | †Stylonuroidea |
Family: | †Stylonuridae |
Genus: | †Pagea Waterston, 1962 |
Type species | |
Pagea sturrocki (Waterston, 1962)
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Other species | |
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Pagea is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid classified as part of the family Stylonuridae. It contains three species, all from the Devonian (Lochkovian to Pragian);[1] P. plotnicki from Nunavut, Canada and P. sturrocki and P. symondsii from the Old Red Sandstone of the United Kingdom.[2] The genus is named in honor of David Page, an early worker on the fauna of the Old Red Sandstone and describer of the first Stylonurine eurypterid.[3]