Rhenopteroidea
Taxonavigation
Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Merostomata
Ordo: †Eurypterida
Subordo: †Stylonurina
Superfamilia: †
Familia:
†Brachyopterellidae –
†Brachyopteridae –
†Rhenopteridae
Name
Rhenopteroidea Størmer, 1951
- Type genus: Rhenopterus Størmer, 1936
Synonyms
- Brachyopterelloidea Tollerton, 1989
References
Primary references
- Størmer, L. 1951. A new eurypterid from the Ordovician of Montgomeryshire, Wales. Geological Magazine 88(6): 409–422. DOI: 10.1017/S001675680006996X
. Reference page. - Tollerton, Jr., V.P. 1989. Morphology, taxonomy, and classification of the order Eurypterida Burmeister, 1843. Journal of Paleontology 63(5): 642–657. JSTOR Reference page.
Additional references
- Lamsdell, J.C. 2025. Codex Eurypterida: A Revised Taxonomy Based on Concordant Parsimony and Bayesian Phylogenetic Analyses. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 473: 1–196. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.473.1.1
. Reference page. - Lamsdell, J.C., Braddy, S.J. & Tetlie, O.E. 2010. The systematics and phylogeny of the Stylonurina (Arthropoda: Chelicerata: Eurypterida). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8(1): 49–61. DOI: 10.1080/14772011003603564 . Reference page.