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- proper noun A taxonomic
class within thesubphylum Chelicerata —extinct arthropods .
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Trilobita and Eurypterida, among the Crustacea; making altogether five for the great sub-kingdom of Annulosa.
Essays 2007
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This paper, with Hünicken as a coauthor, revises the identity of this fossil as a “bizarre eurypterid”, a water scorpion Eurypterida.
Archive 2006-02-01 AYDIN 2006
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Amongst the molluscous animals we have members of the very highest known class, namely, the Cephalopods, or cuttle-fish class; and amongst articulated animals we find Trilobites and Eurypterida, which do not belong to any incipient worm-like group, but are distinctly differentiated
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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But a complete development, such as already obtains in the lobster, &c., was reached by the Eurypterida and Trilobites of the palæozoic strata; and annelids, probably formed mainly like those of the present day, abounded during the deposition of the oldest fossiliferous rocks.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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Eurypterida, among the Crustacea; making altogether five for the great sub-kingdom of Annulosa.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Eurypterida, among the Crustacea; making altogether five for the great sub-kingdom of Annulosa.
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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