Trilobit Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 I am considering buying this fossil is it real & what is it? the seller said it was Balteurypterus tetragonopthalmus but i cant find anything called that. any ideas of what it actually is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 The letter 'o' is missing from the seller's listing. 'Baltoeurypterus' is now considered a junior synonym. The Baltic-Ukrainian species is reclassified: Eurypterus tetragonophthalmus Fischer de Waldheim, G. 1839 Notice un Crustacé fossile du genre Eurypterus de Podolie. Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou, 11:125-128 LINK Selden, P.A. 1981 Functional morphology of the prosoma of Baltoeurypterus tetragonophthalmus (Fischer)(Chelicerata: Eurypterida). Earth and Environmental Science, Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 72(1):9-48 PDF LINK Braddy, S.J., & Dunlop, J.A. 1997 The functional morphology of mating in the Silurian eurypterid, Baltoeurypterus tetragonophthalmus (Fischer, 1839). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 121(4):435-461 PDF LINK Quote: "Three Silurian representatives of the extinct Eurypterida were scored: Parastylonurus ornatus based on Waterston (1979), Mixopterus kiaeri based on Størmer (1934) and Eurypterus (formerly Baltoeurypterus) tetragonophthalmus based on Selden (1981)." Garwood, R.J., & Dunlop, J. 2014 Three-dimensional reconstruction and the phylogeny of extinct chelicerate orders. PeerJ, 2:e641 33 pp. PDF LINK 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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