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Definition of Eurypterids
1. eurypterid [n] - See also: eurypterid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eurypterids
Literary usage of Eurypterids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1891)
"eurypterids.—In the Upper Silurian was introduced and continued to exist along
with Trilobites, ... But the eurypterids were some of them far greater. ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1884)
"Twenty-five figures of eurypterids, in whole or in part, with enlargements of
scales, &c., will be published by the Second Geographical Survey, ..."
3. Palæontology--Invertebrate by Henry Woods (1902)
"In both eurypterids and Scorpions the prosoma bears six pairs of appendages which
are similar in position and in general form; but in the eurypterids the ..."
4. The Origin and Evolution of Life: On the Theory of Action, Reaction and by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1917)
"... including the existing scorpions, spiders, and mites. It is also possible that
the A. FlG. 31. eurypterids OR SEA-SCORPIONS OF SILURIAN ..."
5. Animals Before Man in North America: Their Lives and Times by Frederic Augustus Lucas (1902)
"Like the trilobites, the nearest existing relatives of these eurypterids are the
king crabs, ... In the Carboniferous period the eurypterids came to an end, ..."
6. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1914)
"The long prosoma and thin metasoma of scorpion embryos are the most important
characters separating them from eurypterids. On the other hand the fusion of ..."
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