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Topic: Megalograptus


  
  BBC - Science & Nature - Sea Monsters - Fact File: Sea Scorpion
They were normally sea-floor dwellers but they could also live in freshwater and on land.
Megalograptus browsed the seafloor looking for fish, trilobites and other animals in the sand and mud.
Megalograptus could only grow in size by shedding its hard shell and growing a new one.
www.bbc.co.uk /science/seamonsters/factfiles/seascorpion.shtml   (157 words)

  
 Re: insects - not! (OT)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, frank bliss wrote: > Paleozoic scorpions were marine in origin originally.
Megalograptus > shideleri (ordovician) was a marine scorpion (eurypterid) that was about 6 > feet long and a foot or more wide.
Sort of scarry when the next biggest oh wow, ok, that is just too icky for me to think about!
dml.cmnh.org /2005Apr/msg00506.html   (131 words)

  
 Chased by Sea Monsters Book - diamond deals specials   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Following the hugely successful Walking with Dinosaurs, Chased by Sea Monsters once again recreates the prehistoric world, providing insight into the underwater environment and the strange and fascinating creatures that lived there.
Meet them all – from the fearsome hunter, Liopleurodon, one of the biggest predators that ever existed, to Megalograptus, the most vicious of the spiny sea scorpions.
Plus, discover the latest scientific evidence that led to the reconstruction of these creatures, with details of the modern sites, from New York to Egypt, where water once covered the land.
www.salesmarket.com /discovery-channel-store/ChasedbySeaMonstersBook.htm   (390 words)

  
 Newsletter
Current interests: I have a number of undescribed specimens that I will get to at some point in time (hopefully, soon).
These include a Megalograptus from the Ordovician of Virginia and a Cyrtoctenus-like form from the Carboniferous of Virginia, as well as some Devonian pterygotiud and stylonurid material from Michigan.
I am also planning to carry out a cladistic analysis of the Late Paleozoic eurypterids.
palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk /Communication/Eurypterids/Newsletter   (2597 words)

  
 A Brief History of the Dry Dredgers
Fred Geier (whose husband owned Cincinnati Milling Machine) arrive at an outcrop in her chauffer-driven limousine.
One early Dry Dredger, Charles Cox, found a nearly complete specimen of Megalograptus, an Ordovician eurypterid.
The Dry Dredgers met in the same lecture room in Old Tech until 1988, when our meetings moved to our present location.
drydredgers.org /history1.htm   (1323 words)

  
 Science News: Chased by Sea Monsters Prehistoric Predators of the Deep - Book Review
Published to accompany a television series of the same title that will be aired this month on The Discovery Channel, this lively, visual book recreates life in the ancient oceans from the Ordovician to the Pliocene.
Profiles detailing the behavior and habitats of such vicious sea creatures as the giant megalodon (the biggest flesh-eating shark ever) and the megalograptus (a sea scorpion) paint prehistoric ocean-dwellers as some of the most hostile creatures ever.
Reconstructions created for television bring them to life.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1200/is_9_165/ai_114368613   (255 words)

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