Project 568: J. C. Lamsdell, İ. Hoşgör, P. A. Selden. 2013. A New Ordovician Eurypterid (Arthropoda: Chelicerata) from South East Turkey: Evidence for a Cryptic Ordovician Record of Eurypterida. Gondwana Research. 23:354–366.
Specimen: † Paraeurypterus anatoliensis (MTANHMSETR:10-Ä°Z-01-1)

Abstract

A new species of eurypterid, Paraeurypterus anatoliensis gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) Şort Tepe Formation of southeast Turkey. The single specimen, preserving the carapace, mesosoma and fragments of appendages, appears morphologically intermediate between the eurypteroid families Dolichopteridae and Eurypteridae. P. anatoliensis retains the plesiomorphic conditions of crescentic eyes with enlarged palpebral lobes and a quadrate carapace with ornamentation consisting of small pustules but also displaying the derived characteristics of genal facets and a row of large acicular scales across the posterior of each tergite. Phylogenetic analysis incorporating each of the major eurypterine clades and all Eurypterina having a three-segmented genital operculum (the triploperculate condition) resolves eurypteroids to be an unnatural group, with Dolichopteridae and Eurypteridae forming part of a grade leading to diploperculate Eurypterina. P. anatoliensis is intermediate between the two eurypteroid families, as is ‘Eurypterus’ minor from the Pentland Hills of Scotland, which is shown to be a distinct genus and assigned to Pentlandopterus gen. nov. Using the phylogenetic topology to infer ghost ranges for each of the major eurypterid clades reveals that the majority of eurypterid superfamilies must have originated by the Katian, indicating a largely unsampled record of Ordovician eurypterids. The occurrence of poor dispersers such as Paraeurypterus in the Ordovician of Gondwana is puzzling, and it has been suggested that they dispersed to the continent during periods of sea level lowstand in the Sandbian and Hirnantian, however this does not explain the lack of Ordovician species in North America and Europe, given the well-sampled nature of these continents, and an alternative is proposed whereby eurypterids originated in Gondwana and radiated out to Laurentia and Baltica in the late Ordovician and early Silurian, thus explaining their sudden appearance in the European and North American rock record.


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Project DOI: 10.7934/P568, http://dx.doi.org/10.7934/P568
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    Authors' Institutions

    • Natural History Museum, London

    • Capital Normal University

    • University of Kansas

    • TransAtlantic Petroleum Ltd.-Viking Int. Ltd.



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    Taxonomic Overview for Matrix 'M1387' (45 Taxa)

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    [1] † Weinbergina opitzi
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    [2] † Brachyopterus stubblefieldi
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    [3] † Parastylonurus ornatus
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    [4] † Stoermeropterus conicus
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    [5] † Stoermeropterus latus
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    [6] † Stoermeropterus nodosus
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    [7] † Vinetopterus struvei
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    [8] † Vinetopterus martini
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    [9] † Moselopterus ancylotelson
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    1787802001
    [10] † Moselopterus elongatus
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    [11] † Onychopterella augusti
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    [12] † Onychopterella kokomoensis
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    [13] † Dolichopterus macrocheirus
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    [14] † Eurypterus remipes
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    [15] † Hughmilleria socialis
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    [16] † Tylopterella boylei
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    [17] † Megalograptus ohioensis
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    [18] † Mixopterus kiaeri
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    [19] † Strobilopterus princetonii
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    [20] † Erieopterus microphthalmus
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    [21] † Rhenopterus diensti
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    [22] † Octoberaspis ushakovi
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    [23] † Loganamaraspis dunlopi
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    [24] † Diploaspis casteri
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    [25] † Paraeurypterus anatoliensis
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    [26] † Pentlandopterus minor
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    [27] † Chasmataspis laurencii
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    [28] † Buffalopterus pustulosus
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    [29] † Syntomopterella richardsoni
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    [30] † Dolichopterus jewetti
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    [31] † Ruedemannipterus stylonuroides
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    [32] † Clarkeipterus testudineus
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    [33] † Clarkeipterus otisius
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    [34] † Erieopterus eriensis
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    [35] † Eurypterus henkeni
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    [36] † Eurypterus tetragonophalmus
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    [37] † Eurypterus leopoldi
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    [38] † Eurypterus pittsfordensis
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    [39] † Eurypterus henningsmoeni
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    [40] † Orcanopterus manitoulinensis
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    [41] † Pterygotus anglicus
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    [42] † Adelophthalmus sievertsi
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    [43] † Eurypterus dekayi
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    [44] † Carcinosoma newlini
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    [45] † Nanahughmilleria norvegica
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