Stylonuroides
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| Stylonuroides Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Order: | †Eurypterida |
| Family: | †Rhenopteridae |
| Genus: | †Stylonuroides Kjellesvig-Waering, 1966 |
| Species: | †S. dolichopteroides |
| Binomial name | |
| †Stylonuroides dolichopteroides (Størmer, 1934) | |
Stylonuroides is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid. The genus contains a single species, S. dolichopteroides from the Silurian of Ringerike, Norway.[1]
Stylonuroides has been classified as a stylonurine since its description, but more precise classification has proven difficult historically. The genus was long classified as incertae sedis within the suborder.[2] A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis by Lamsdell (2025) recovered Stylonuroides within the Rhenopteridae, as the sister taxon of Rhenopterus.[1]
