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Ctenopterus

Ctenopterus
Temporal range:
Restoration and fossils
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Order: Eurypterida
Family: Stylonuridae
Subfamily: Laurieipterinae
Genus: Ctenopterus
Clarke & Ruedemann, 1912
Species:
C. cestrotus
Binomial name
Ctenopterus cestrotus
(Clarke, 1907)

Ctenopterus is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid of the family Stylonuridae. It contains only one species, Ctenopterus cestrotus from the Early Silurian of Otisville, New York, United States.[1]

  1. ^ Dunlop, J. A., Penney, D. & Jekel, D. 2015. A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives. In World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch, version 16.0 http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/resources/fossils/Fossils16.0.pdf (PDF).

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