Lanarkopterus
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.
| Lanarkopterus Temporal range: Late Silurian, Ludlow epoch, | |
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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 | |
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Specimens of the genus have been recovered from deposits of Late Silurian age in Scotland.
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