Paraeurypterus anatoliensis

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. Paraeurypterus is classified as part of the family Dolichopteridae.

Paraeurypterus anatoliensis

James Lamsdell · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParaeurypterusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Eurypterida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Eurypterida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Eurypterida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Eurypterida

Time the record covers

At most 7.6 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 445.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Paraeurypterus anatoliensis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

1 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

1 formation

Sort Tepe — 37.29°N, 43.54°E

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The named rock units Paraeurypterus anatoliensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Paraeurypterus anatoliensis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Paraeurypterus anatoliensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Paraeurypterus anatoliensis, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Paraeurypterus anatoliensis

Credit
James Lamsdell
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paraeurypterus anatoliensis was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itParaeurypterus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamsdell et al. 2013