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1 | A right swimming leg; original of Hall's type [Palaeontology of N. Y. v. 3, pl. 82, fig. 3], showing the great width of the seventh joint. Natural size |
Eurypterus dekayi Hall
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See plate 20, figure 1
2 | Nearly entire specimen, exposing the ventral view of the abdomen and the interior view of the carapace. The posterior portion of the preabdomen is contracted. The specimen shows the broad carapace, the great number of long spines on each segment of the walking leg, the form of the swimming leg and the long postlateral lobes of the last segment. Natural size |
The figures are from photographs. Originals are from the Bertie waterlime, Buffalo, N. Y.; that of figure 1 is in the State Museum, of figure 2 in the museum of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences
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