| Paraeurypterus Temporal range:
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| Fossil of P. anatoliensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Order: | †Eurypterida |
| Superfamily: | †Dolichopteroidea |
| Family: | †Dolichopteridae |
| Genus: | †Paraeurypterus Lamsdell, Hoşgör & Selden, 2013 |
| Type species | |
| †Paraeurypterus anatoliensis Lamsdell, Hoşgör & Selden, 2013
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Paraeurypterus is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid from the Late Ordovician period. The genus contains one species, P. anatoliensis, known from Şort Tepe in Turkey.1 Paraeurypterus is classified as part of the family Dolichopteridae.2
References
References
- 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 16.0 http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/resources/fossils/Fossils16.0.pdf (PDF).
- Lamsdell, James C. (2025). "Codex Eurypterida: A Revised Taxonomy Based on Concordant Parsimony and Bayesian Phylogenetic Analyses". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 2025 (473): 93. doi:10.1206/0003-0090.473.1.1.