Eurypterida is represented by an early Ordovician Fezouata occurrence, a reviewed late Permian record and morphology matrices; the combined history is a sampled fossil envelope rather than a complete origin-to-extinction sequence.
Represented range479–250 Ma
Content packagetrilobites-chelicerates
PBDBtxn:18947
Evidence boundary
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Claim ledger
fossil-range · high
Pentecopterus decorahensis material from the Darriwilian Winneshiek Lagerstätte supplies a named local eurypterid occurrence and an expanded morphology matrix. It is a specimen- and locality-bounded minimum record, not the exact global origin or full range of Eurypterida.
claim:taxon:eurypteridafossil-range · medium
The atlas shows a 479–250 Ma reviewed eurypterid fossil-record envelope from the oldest unequivocal Fezouata material to Tetlie's reviewed latest record, not an origination or extinction interval.
claim:taxon:eurypterida:fossil-rangemorphology · medium
Van Roy et al. document Fezouata eurypterid appendages and score morphology in a matrix, while Lamsdell et al. provide a sampled Pentecopterus comparison; these characters do not establish order-wide anatomy.
claim:taxon:eurypterida:morphologytaxonomy · medium
Van Roy et al. place unequivocal Fezouata sea scorpions in a sampled eurypterid morphology matrix, while Tetlie reviews historical distribution; classification remains a sampled, revisable hypothesis rather than a final order-wide tree.
claim:taxon:eurypterida:taxonomybiogeography · medium
Fezouata and Late Permian Russian occurrences in Van Roy et al. and Tetlie provide bounded localities across time; they do not constitute a complete geographic distribution of Eurypterida.
claim:taxon:eurypterida:biogeographyecology · high
The cited eurypterid studies address morphology, phylogenetic placement and fossil distribution; predatory function, habitat preference, locomotor performance, body size and ecological guild remain study-limited and unassigned here.
claim:taxon:eurypterida:ecology
Known limits
A missing branch or fossil occurrence does not imply biological absence. Internal nodes are not calibrated divergence estimates.