Reconstruction by Filipiak, P. & Krawczyński, W. 1996 of Euproops rotundatus (Prestwich, 1840) in dorsal view.
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Chelicerata
Order:
Xiphosura
Family:
†Belinuridae
Genus:
†Euproops Meek, 1867[1]
Synonyms[2]
Prestwichia Woodward, 1867
Prestwichianella Cockerell, 1905
Euproops is an extinct genus of xiphosuran, related to the modern horseshoe crab. It lived during the Carboniferous Period.
The Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology describes Euproopidae as "small forms with wedge-shaped cardiac lobe bordered by distinct axial furrows, abdominal shield with annulated axis bearing a high boss on last segment." The same source describes Euproops as follows. "Prosoma with flat genal spines and carinate opthamalic spines; cardiopthamalic region with or without intercardiopthamalic area; abdomen with raised pleural ridges that cross flattened rim and are prolonged as marginal spines; annulated axis with knob on 1st and 3rd segments and elevated boss or short spine on hindmost segment; telson long."[3]
^Meek, F. B. 1867. Notes on a new genus of fossil Crustacea. Geological Magazine, 4, 320 - 1.
^Dunlop, J. A., Penney, D. & Jekel, D. 2015. A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives. In World Spider
Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch, version 16.0
^Størmer, L. 1955. Merostomata. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part P Arthropoda 2, Chelicerata, P: 20.
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but 1 less than the holaspis), holaspis (=adult) Arthropoda: Xiphosura euproöps larva ("trilobite larva") Arthropoda: Pycnogonida protonymphon Crustaceans...
specimens of extant (Limulus polyphemus, Tachypleus tridentatus) and fossil (Euproops danae, Mesolimulus walchi) horseshoe crabs, and compare injuries to horseshoe...
declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965. The fossil horseshoe crab Euproops danae Dana Peak in Alaska. Howlite European and American voyages of scientific...
Ordovician Period, more than 440 million years ago, and late Paleozoic Euproops fossils indicate that they have changed little over the last 300 million...
ontogenetic changes in prosomal morphology in Carboniferous horseshoe crab Euproops danae is published by Tashman, Feldmann & Schweitzer (2019). A study on...
species of Tyrannophontes. Dithyrocaris D. rolfei A large phyllocarid shrimp Euproops E. sp. A rare xiphosuran (early horseshoe crab) Ostracoda indet. Indeterminate...
United States A member of the family Belinuridae. The type species is "Euproops" longispina Packard (1885). Batracholimulus Gen. et comb. nov Valid Lamsdell...
lacustrine fauna from one of its shell beds, including the horseshoe crab Euproops danae. The unit was first named by Lloyd C. Pray in 1954 and a type section...
system in a specimen of Euproops danae from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek fossil beds (Illinois, United States). A specimen of Euproops danae preserving anatomical...
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