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- not comparableRelating to the preabdomen
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As such, Megalograptus has been considered to represent the plesiomorphic condition within eurypterids for a number of characters, including the occurrence of the opisthosomal preabdominal/postabdominal constriction at the sixth and seventh segment as opposed to the seventh and eighth [ 5 ], the possession of an extra podomere on prosomal appendages II–V [ 72 ], and the morphology of the prosomal ventral plates [ 37 ].
2015 September 1, James C. Lamsdell et al., “The oldest described eurypterid: a giant Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) megalograptid from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte of Iowa”, in BMC Evolutionary Biology, volume 15, →DOI
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