Waeringopterus is a genus of prehistoric eurypterids from the Silurian of North America.[1] The genus contains two species, W. apfeli from the Syracuse and Vernon Formations of New York and Ontario and W. cumberlandicus from the Wills Creek Formation, West Virginia.[2] Fossils of the genus also were found in the Indian Point Formation of Quebec.
| Waeringopterus Temporal range: Late Silurian,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Order: | †Eurypterida |
| Superfamily: | †Waeringopteroidea |
| Family: | †Waeringopteridae |
| Genus: | †Waeringopterus Leutze, 1961 |
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| †Waeringopterus cumberlandicus Swartz, 1923
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References
edit- ^ J. J. Sepkoski. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560
- ^ 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 http://wsc.nmbe.ch , version 16.0 http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/resources/fossils/Fossils16.0.pdf (PDF)
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