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Pagea Temporal range: Lochkovian–Pragian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Carapace of Pagea symondsii.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Order:	†Eurypterida
Superfamily:	†Stylonuroidea
Family:	†Stylonuridae
Genus:	†Pagea Waterston, 1962
Type species
Pagea sturrocki (Waterston, 1962)
Other species
P. plotnicki Lamsdell, Braddy, Loeffler & Dineley, 2010 P. symondsii Salter, 1859

Pagea is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid classified as part of the family Stylonuridae. It contains three species, all from the Devonian (Lochkovian to Pragian); P. plotnicki from Nunavut, Canada and P. sturrocki and P. symondsii from the Old Red Sandstone of the United Kingdom. The genus is named in honor of David Page, an early worker on the fauna of the Old Red Sandstone and describer of the first Stylonurine eurypterid.

Description

Pagea was a large stylonurid eurypterid. The third and fourth prosomal appendages bore double rows of flat spines. The prosoma was subrectangularly shaped, with the eyes located on the anterior half.

The metastoma was narrow in relation to the width of the prosoma, being half as wide as it was long. The telson was styliform, long and keeled.

See also

• List of eurypterids

References

1. Lamsdell, James C.; Braddy, Simon J. (2010-04-23). "Cope's Rule and Romer's theory: patterns of diversity and gigantism in eurypterids and Palaeozoic vertebrates". Biology Letters. 6 (2): 265–269. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0700. ISSN 1744-9561. PMC 2865068. PMID 19828493.
2. Dunlop, J. A., Penney, D. & Jekel, D. 2015. A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives. In World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch, version 16.0 http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/resources/fossils/Fossils16.0.pdf (PDF).
3. ^ "Pagea sturrocki gen. et sp. nov., a new eurypterid from the Old Red Sandstone of Scotland | The Palaeontological Association". www.palass.org. Retrieved 2017-12-27.

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Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Clade: Euchelicerata Clade: Prosomapoda Clade: Planaterga Clade: Dekatriata Clade: Sclerophorata
Taxonomy	Genera List of eurypterid genera Suborder Stylonurina Rhenopteroidea Rhenopteridae Stylonuroidea Parastylonuridae Stylonuridae Kokomopteroidea Kokomopteridae Hardieopteridae Mycteropoidea Drepanopteridae Hibbertopteridae Mycteroptidae Suborder Eurypterina Onychopterelloidea Onychopterellidae Moselopteroidea Moselopteridae Eurypteroidea Dolichopteridae Eurypteridae Strobilopteridae Infraorder Diploperculata Carcinosomatoidea Carcinosomatidae Megalograptidae Mixopteridae Waeringopteroidea Waeringopteridae Adelophthalmoidea Adelophthalmidae Pterygotioidea Hughmilleriidae Slimonidae Pterygotidae
Geochronology	Ordovician Silurian Devonian Carboniferous Permian
Geography	Africa Asia Europe North America Oceania South America
Notable genera	Adelophthalmus Brachyopterus Campylocephalus Carcinosoma Drepanopterus Eurypterus Hibbertopterus Hughmilleria Jaekelopterus Megalograptus Megarachne Mixopterus Onychopterella Pentecopterus Pterygotus Slimonia Stylonurus
Ichnogenera	Arcuites Merostomichnites Palmichnium
Related groups	Arachnida Chasmataspidida Xiphosura
Related articles	Metastoma Timeline of eurypterid research
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