Hibbertopteridae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Mycteropoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Merostomata Ordo: †Eurypterida Subordo: †Stylonurina Superfamilia: †Mycteropoidea

Familia: †Hibbertopteridae
Genera: †Campylocephalus – †Dunsopterus – †Glyptoscorpius – †Hibbertopterus

Name

Hibbertopteridae Kjellesvig-Waering, 1959

Type genus: Hibbertopterus Kjellesvig-Waering, 1959.

Synonyms

• Cyrtoctenidae Waterston, Oelofsen & Oosthuizen, 1985

References

Primary references

• Waterston, C.D., Oelofsen, B.W. & Oosthuizen, R.D.F. 1985. Cyrtoctenus wittebergensis sp. nov. (Chelicerata: Eurypterida), a large sweep-feeder from the Carboniferous of South Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences 76(2–3): 339–358. DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300010555 . Reference page. 

Additional references

• Lamsdell, J.C. 2025. Codex Eurypterida: A Revised Taxonomy Based on Concordant Parsimony and Bayesian Phylogenetic Analyses. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 473: 1–196. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.473.1.1 . Reference page.