Species

Pterygotus impacatus Kjellesvig-Waering, 1964

Current taxon already exists. See initial taxon Erettopterus osiliensis

Taxon ID: 2878

Fossil group: Chelicerata

Belongs to: Pterygotus

Other version of taxon: Erettopterus osiliensis

Stratigraphic range: Ludlow (within ca. 427.4 – 423.0 million years)

Synonymy list

1883 Pterygotus osiliensis (pars) — Schmidt , fig. Pl. 7:8

1883 Pterygotus osiliensis laticauda (pars) — Schmidt , fig. Pl. 4:8

1964 Pterygotus (Pterygotus) impactus — Kjellesvig-Waering , pp. 398, fig. P1. 54, figs. 2,3; Pl. 3, fig. 10; Text-figs. 20,2

1983 Pterygotus impacatus Kjellesvig-Waering — Plotnik , pp. 390

1999 Pterygotus impacatus Kjellesvig-Waering — Plotnik , pp. 123

2004 Pterygotus impacatus Kjellesvig-Waering — Tetlie , pp. 198

2007 Pterygotus impacatus — Tetlie , pp. 563

Selection of related publications

Tetlie, O. E. 2007. Distribution and dispersal history of Eurypterida (Chelicerata). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 252, 557-574. DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.05.011

Kjellesvig-Waering, E. N. 1964. A synopsis of the Family Pterygotidae Clarke and Ruedemann 1912 (Eurypterida). Journal of Paleontology 38, 331–361.

Classification

References based on distribution