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Hughmilleriidae

Hughmilleriidae
Temporal range: Silurian
The Eurypterida of New York plate 59.jpg
Restoration of Hughmilleria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Merostomata
Order: Eurypterida
Suborder: Eurypterina
Superfamily: Pterygotioidea
Family: Hughmilleriidae
Kjellesvig-Waering, 1951
Genera

Hughmilleriidae is an extinct family of eurypterids that lived in the Silurian period. The family is one of three families contained in the superfamily Pterygotioidea (along with Pterygotidae and Slimoniidae), which in turn is one of the superfamilies classified as part of the suborder Eurypterina. The family contains two genera, Herefordopterus and Hughmilleria.


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