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Adelophthalmus granosus
Taxonomy
Adelophthalmus (Eurypterus) granosus was named by von Meyer (1853). Its type specimen is Mus. f. Naturk. Berlin, K 29, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Railroad cutting at Jägersfreude, which is in a Westphalian C terrestrial siltstone in the Saarbrucken’schen Kohlengebirges Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Adelophthalmus, Polyzosterites.
It was recombined as Polyzosterites granosus by Goldenberg (1873), Scudder (1879); it was recombined as Adelophthalmus granosus by Kjellesvig-Waering (1958), Tetlie and Dunlop (2005), Dunlop et al. (2013).
It was recombined as Polyzosterites granosus by Goldenberg (1873), Scudder (1879); it was recombined as Adelophthalmus granosus by Kjellesvig-Waering (1958), Tetlie and Dunlop (2005), Dunlop et al. (2013).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1853 | Adelophthalmus (Eurypterus) granosus von Meyer p. 8 figs. Pl 2, figs 1,2 |
| 1854 | Adelophthalmus (Eurypterus) granosus Jordan p. 8 figs. Pl 2, figs 1, 2 |
| 1873 | Polyzosterites granosus Goldenberg p. 18 figs. Pl 1, fig 17 |
| 1879 | Polyzosterites granosus Scudder p. 129 |
| 1958 | Adelophthalmus granosus Kjellesvig-Waering |
| 2005 | Adelophthalmus granosus Tetlie and Dunlop pp. 6-9 figs. 2A, 3A |
| 2013 | Adelophthalmus granosus Dunlop et al. p. 187 |
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†Adelophthalmus granosus von Meyer 1853
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available