Stylonuroidea

Stylonuroidea
Temporal occurrence
	Lower Silurian to Lower Devonian
	443.4 to 393.3 million years
Locations
	North America; Europe;
Systematics
Trunk :	Arthropod (arthropoda)
Sub-stem :	Jawbearers (Chelicerata)
Class :	Hip mouths (Merostomata)
Order :	Sea scorpions (Eurypterida)
Subordination :	Stylonurina
Superfamily :	Stylonuroidea
Scientific name
	Stylonuroidea
	Servant , 1924

Stylonuroidea is a superfamily of the suborder Stylonurina from the order of the sea scorpions (Eurypterida).

features

In the species from the superfamily Stylonuroidea, the posterior margin of the metastoma was flattened or blunt.

Locations

Representatives of the superfamily Stylonuroidea have been found in North America (states New York and Pennsylvania ) and Europe ( England and Scotland ).

Systematics

The superfamily was set up in 1924 by Karl Diener . According to Lamsdell, Braddy & Tetlie 2010, it includes the following families:

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literature

James C. Lamsdell, Simon J. Braddy, O. Erik Tetlie: The systematics and phylogeny of the Stylonurina (Arthropoda: Chelicerata: Eurypterida) . In: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology . Volume 8, No. 1 , 2010, p. 49-61 , doi : 10.1080 / 14772011003603564 .

Individual evidence

^ O. Erik Tetlie: Distribution and dispersal history of Eurypterida (Chelicerata) . In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology . Volume 252, 2007, pp. 557-574 , doi : 10.1016 / j.palaeo.2007.05.011 .
^ Karl Diener : Eurypterida . In: Fossilium Catalogus I: Animalia . tape 25 . W. Junk, Berlin 1924.

[Tetlie2007-1] O. Erik Tetlie: Distribution and dispersal history of Eurypterida (Chelicerata) . In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology . Volume 252, 2007, pp. 557-574 , doi : 10.1016 / j.palaeo.2007.05.011 .

[Diener1924-2] Karl Diener : Eurypterida . In: Fossilium Catalogus I: Animalia . tape 25 . W. Junk, Berlin 1924.