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Laurieipterus elegans

Eurypterida - Stylonuridae

Taxonomy
Stylonurus elegans was named by Laurie (1899). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Gutterford Burn Eurypterid bed, Pentland Hills, which is in a Telychian offshore sandstone in the Reservoir Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Laurieipterus.

It was recombined as Laurieipterus elegans by Dunlop et al. (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1899Stylonurus elegans Laurie p. 580 figs. Pl 2, figs 13-15; pl 3, fig 19
2013Laurieipterus elegans Dunlop et al. p. 17

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
subphylumChelicerataHeymons 1901
—EuchelicerataWeygoldt and Paulus 1979
RankNameAuthor
—Prosomapoda
—Planaterga
—Dekatriata
—SclerophorataKamenz et al. 2011
orderEurypteridaBurmeister 1843
suborderStylonurinaDiener 1924
superfamilyStylonuroideaDiener 1924
familyStylonuridaeDiener 1924
genusLaurieipterus
specieselegans()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Laurieipterus elegans Laurie 1899
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available