Eurypterida - Adelophthalmidae

Full reference: A. Pribyl. 1952. On the genus Adelophthalmus Jordan and Meyer, 1854 (Eurypterida) and its representatives in the Upper Carboniferous of Czechoslovakia. Bulletin International de l’Académie tchéque des Sciences 53:63-70

Belongs to Adelophthalmus according to O. E. Tetlie and J. A. Dunlop 2005

Sister taxa: Adelophthalmus (Eurypterus), Adelophthalmus approximatus, Adelophthalmus asturica, Adelophthalmus brasdorense, Adelophthalmus cambieri, Adelophthalmus carbonarius, Adelophthalmus chinensis, Adelophthalmus corneti, Adelophthalmus douvillei, Adelophthalmus dubius, Adelophthalmus dumonti, Adelophthalmus granosus, Adelophthalmus imhofi, Adelophthalmus irinae, Adelophthalmus kamyshtensis, Adelophthalmus kidstoni, Adelophthalmus lohesti, Adelophthalmus luceroensis, Adelophthalmus mansfieldi, Adelophthalmus mazonensis, Adelophthalmus moyseyi, Adelophthalmus nebraskensis, Adelophthalmus pennsylvanicus, Adelophthalmus perornatus, Adelophthalmus piussii, Adelophthalmus pruvosti, Adelophthalmus pyrrhae, Adelophthalmus raniceps, Adelophthalmus sellardsi, Adelophthalmus sievertsi, Adelophthalmus waterstoni, Adelophthalmus wilsoni, Lepidoderma imhofi

Type specimen: M.B.A. 889, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Gottwald (František) Mine, coal seam 31, Horní Suchá, which is in a Yeadonian/Westphalian A mire/swamp mudstone in the Karviná beds Formation of Czechia.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Gottwald (František) Mine, coal seam 31, Horní Suchá

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