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Arcuites
Temporal range: Silurian PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Trace fossil classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Order: Eurypterida
Ichnogenus: Arcuites
Vrazo & Ciurca, 2017
Type ichnospecies
Arcuites bertiensis
Vrazo & Ciurca, 2017

Arcuites is an ichnofossil genus, interpreted as a eurypterid swimming trace. Traces produced by swimming eurypterids were described from the Silurian Williamsville Formation (Ontario, Canada) and Tonoloway Formation (Pennsylvania, United States) by Vrazo & Ciurca in 2017 as a new ichnogenus and ichnospecies, named Arcuites bertiensis.

References

  1. Matthew B. Vrazo; Samuel J. Ciurca, Jr (2017). "New trace fossil evidence for eurypterid swimming behaviour". Palaeontology. 61 (2): 235–252. doi:10.1111/pala.12336.


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