Temporal range: Late Silurian, Ludlow epoch, 422.9–418.7 Ma
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Restoration of L. dolichoschelus.
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Chelicerata
Order:
†Eurypterida
Superfamily:
†Carcinosomatoidea
Family:
†Mixopteridae
Genus:
†Lanarkopterus Ritchie, 1968
Type species
Lanarkopterus dolichoschelus
Peach and Horne, 1899
Synonyms
Eurypterus dolichoschelus (Peach and Horne, 1899)
Mixopterus dolichoschelus (Størmer, 1936)
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.
Lanarkopterus is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid with one recognised species, Lanarkopterus dolichoschelus. Lanarkopterus was long seen as a species...
species Lanarkopterus dolichoschelus from the Ordovician of Ohio contain fragments of jawless fish and fragments of smaller specimens of Lanarkopterus itself...
cannibalism as well. Similar coprolites assigned to the eurypterid Lanarkopterus dolichoschelus, also from the Ordovician of Ohio, contain, in addition...
Lanarkshire and Ayrshire, Scotland (Silurian), reclassified as its own genus, Lanarkopterus. Tracks attributed to Mixopterus have been discovered in fossil deposits...
Caster & Kjellesvig-Waering, 1955 Genus Mixopterus Ruedemann, 1921 Genus Lanarkopterus Størmer, 1936 Genus Terropterus Wang et al., 2021 Paleontology portal...
deeper waters whilst the more derived forms, such as Mixopterus and Lanarkopterus have not. Basal carcinosomatoids (Carcinosomatidae) are likely responsible...
deeper waters whilst the more derived forms, such as Mixopterus and Lanarkopterus have not. Basal carcinosomatoids (Carcinosomatidae) are likely responsible...
continent of Gondwana, with the other two mixopterid genera, Mixopterus and Lanarkopterus, only being known from what was once the northern continent of Laurussia...
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