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Mycteroptidae

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Mycteroptids were sweep-feeding eurypterids known from the Late Carboniferous to the Late Permian.

Description

Mycteroptids were medium-sized to fairly large mycteropoids with parabolic prosoma and a hastate telson with paired ventral keels. They had a culticular ornament of scales or mucrones and unlike the hibbertopterids, appendage IV was non-spiniferous. The first and second opisthosomal tergites were strongly developed and elongated. The heads of mycteroptids were subtrapezoid in shape with small compound eyes.

Mycteroptids only used appendages II and III to capture prey, whilst hibberopterids used II, III and IV.

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