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is distinguished by its small size, compound eyes with axes converging anteriorly on a subtrapezoid to subpentagonal prosoma (head). All of its legs are walking legs; the first three pairs are short with spines, except when modified into clasping organs; the last two pairs are moderately long, keeled
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Kjellesvig-Waering (1966) concluded that "there is no other genus that warrants comparison, or, indeed at our present state of knowledge, reveals any close affinities with this very unusual genus", though the genus was able to be classified as a
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and tapering in width to terminal claws. The last leg falls short of the penultimate abdominal segment. The abdomen is narrow and ends in a short styliform
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is today recognized as containing one valid species,
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chelicerata
Eurypterida
Rhenopteroidea
Rhenopteridae
Brachyopterus
Størmer
Type species
eurypterid
Rhenopteridae
Middle Ordovician

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