Euchelicerata - Eurypterida - Pterygotidae
Synonym: Jaekelopteridae Stoermer 1974
Parent taxon: Pterygotioidea according to J.A. Dunlop et al. 2020
See also Dunlop et al. 2013, Selden 1986 and Størmer 1955
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Acutiramus Ciurcopterus Erettopterus Jaekelopterus Necrogammarus Pterygotus
Type: Pterygotus
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Algeria (1 collection), Australia (4), Canada (6: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec), the Czech Republic (5), France (1), Germany (4), Norway (1), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (7: Florida, Indiana, New York, Ohio, Wyoming)
• Silurian to Devonian of Poland (1)
• Silurian of Australia (1), Canada (3: New Brunswick, Ontario), China (2), the Czech Republic (7), Estonia (2), Libya (2), Morocco (1), Norway (6), Poland (3), Spain (1), Sweden (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (11), United States (23: Florida, Indiana, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia)
Total: 104 collections including 143 occurrences