stylonurine

English

Noun

stylonurine (plural stylonurines)

1. Any eurypterid sea scorpion of the suborder †Stylonurina.
   • 2015 September 1, James C. Lamsdell et al., “The oldest described eurypterid: a giant Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) megalograptid from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte of Iowa”, in BMC Evolutionary Biology‎^[1], volume 15, →DOI:

     The genus Alkenopterus Størmer, 1974 is also included for the first time, as it has been shown to be a basal representative of the Eurypterina [ 46 ] rather than a stylonurine as previously interpreted [ 47 ].