Hardieopterus

Hardieopterus is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid classified within the family Hardieopteridae.

The genus was previously considered to contain four species, all Silurian in age; H. lanarkensis and H. macrophthalmus from Scotland, H. megalops from England and H. myops from the United States.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 https://wsc.nmbe.ch, version 16.0 https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/resources/fossils/Fossils16.0.pdf (PDF). Only the type species, H. macrophthalmus, is now considered to belong to Hardieopterus, the others having been assigned to the separate genera Athenepterus (H. megalops) and Waterstonopterus (H. lanarkensis, H. myops).

See also List of eurypterids

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