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Wiedopterus
Description | Wiedopterus is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid. The genus contains one species, W. noctua, recovered from deposits of Early Devonian age in the Lahrbach Valley, Germany. The generic name derives from the Wied river, which runs near the site of the initial discovery, and the species name, noctua, derives from Latin noctua (owl) which refers to the superficial resemblance of the carapace and eyes to an owl. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiedopterus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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Source Data |
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Rank | genus | |||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Wiedopterus | |||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
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Scientific Name | Wiedopterus Poschmann, 2015 | |||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiedopterus |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Wiedopterus noctua species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!