Mycteroptidae
Mycteroptidae are a family of eurypterids, a group of extinct chelicerate arthropods commonly known as "sea scorpions". The family is one of three families contained in the superfamily Mycteropoidea (along with Hibbertopteridae and Drepanopteridae), which in turn is one of four superfamilies classified as part of the suborder Stylonurina.
| Mycteroptidae Temporal range: Late Carboniferous-Late Permian, | |
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| Reconstruction of Megarachne servinei. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Order: | †Eurypterida |
| Suborder: | †Stylonurina |
| Superfamily: | †Mycteropoidea |
| Family: | †Mycteroptidae Cope, 1886 |
| Type genus | |
| Mycterops Cope, 1886 | |
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Mycteroptids were sweep-feeding eurypterids known from the Late Carboniferous to the Late Permian.
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