Catalog / genus

Jaekelopterus

The cited Jaekelopterus rhenaniae chelicera comes from the Willwerath Lagerstätte in Germany's Klerf Formation, assigned to the Lower Emsian of the Early Devonian. This fossil locality is not the genus's global distribution or complete temporal range. This navigation entry is not a phylogeny or a complete taxon dossier.

Represented range411–407 Ma

Content packagetrilobites-chelicerates

PBDBtxn:18976

Evidence boundary

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Claim ledger

fossil-range · medium

claim:taxon:jaekelopterus

Known limits

A missing branch or fossil occurrence does not imply biological absence. Internal nodes are not calibrated divergence estimates.

References

Giant claw reveals the largest ever arthropodBraddy, S.J.; Poschmann, M.; Tetlie, O.E. · 2008 · DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0491
Open Tree of Life web servicesOpenTreeOfLife Project
The Paleobiology Database application programming interfacePeters, S.E.; McClennen, M. · 2016 · DOI 10.1017/pab.2015.39
Denormalized occurrence and taxon tables of the Paleobiology DatabaseThe Paleobiology Database Community; Kocsis, Á.T. · 2026 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21620933

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