Fossil of M. kiaeri exhibited at the Moscow Paleontological Museum.
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Chelicerata
Order:
†Eurypterida
Superfamily:
†Carcinosomatoidea
Family:
†Mixopteridae
Genus:
†Mixopterus Ruedemann, 1921
Type species
†Mixopterus multispinosus
Ruedemann, 1921
Species
†M. kiaeri Størmer, 1934
†M. multispinosus Ruedemann, 1921
†M. simonsoni Schmidt, 1883
Mixopterus is a genus of eurypterid, an extinct group of aquatic arthropods. Fossils of Mixopterus have been discovered in deposits from Late Silurian age, and have been referred to several different species. Fossils have been recovered from two continents; Europe and North America.[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 18.5 http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/resources/fossils/Fossils18.5.pdf (PDF).
Mixopterus is a genus of eurypterid, an extinct group of aquatic arthropods. Fossils of Mixopterus have been discovered in deposits from Late Silurian...
initially believed that it might have been a species of Mixopterus, tentatively designating it as "Mixopterus (?) alveolatus", Caster and Kjellesvig-Waering assigned...
species of Mixopterus as previously thought and placed it in its own genus within the Mixopteridae, Lanarkopterus. List of eurypterids Mixopterus Ritchie...
type of propulsion is more energy-efficient. Some eurypterines, such as Mixopterus (as inferred from attributed fossil trackways), were not necessarily good...
southern continent of Gondwana, with the other two mixopterid genera, Mixopterus and Lanarkopterus, only being known from what was once the northern continent...
classified Megalograptus and Echinognathus, together with the genera Mixopterus and Carcinosoma, into the family Carcinosomatidae. The taxonomy was amended...
name 'Carcinosomidae', in 1934, to contain the four genera Carcinosoma, Mixopterus, Echinognathus and Megalograptus. The family was amended by Erik N. Kjellesvig-Waering...
have been found in deeper waters whilst the more derived forms, such as Mixopterus and Lanarkopterus have not. Basal carcinosomatoids (Carcinosomatidae)...
Salteropterus, Dolichopterus, Hughmilleria, Eurypterus, Marsupipterus, Mixopterus, Parahughmilleria, Slimonia, Tarsopterella and Stylonurus are also present...
other eurypterids, notably Eurypterus pittsfordensis and, more rarely, Mixopterus. A. suwanneensis was named from a single specimen in 1955. The specimen...
Burmeister, 1845 Family Mixopteridae Caster & Kjellesvig-Waering, 1955 Genus Mixopterus Ruedemann, 1921 Genus Lanarkopterus Størmer, 1936 Genus Terropterus Wang...
have been found in deeper waters whilst the more derived forms, such as Mixopterus and Lanarkopterus have not. Basal carcinosomatoids (Carcinosomatidae)...
Carcinosoma, Mixopterus, Dolichopterus and Eysyslopterus as well as cephalaspidomorph fishes. P. monroensis lived alongside Mixopterus, Hughmilleria...
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