Mixopteridae
The Mixopteridae are a family of eurypterids, an extinct group of chelicerate arthropods commonly known as "sea scorpions". The family is one of two families contained in the superfamily Carcinosomatoidea (along with Carcinosomatidae), which in turn is one of the superfamilies classified as part of the suborder Eurypterina.
| Mixopteridae Temporal range: early Silurian, | |
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| Fossil of Mixopterus kiaeri exhibited at the Moscow Paleontological Museum. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Order: | †Eurypterida |
| Infraorder: | †Diploperculata |
| Superfamily: | †Carcinosomatoidea |
| Family: | †Mixopteridae Caster & Kjellesvig-Waering, 1955 |
| Type species | |
| †Mixopterus multispinosus Ruedemann, 1921 | |
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