Assertion: eurypterid's carapace | /r/HasProperty | triangular
Facets:
value: in shape
type: OTHER
value: with eyes
type: OTHER
value: clearly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Further features distinctive of the genus include that the carapace (segment covering the head) is clearly triangular in shape, with eyes placed on the rim of it and positioned forwards, the fact that all walking legs possess spines and that they decrease in length the further back they were placed as well as the cylindrically shaped and sharp telson (tail spike).
text: The features of Limulus which appear to be of importance in ascertaining the habits of the eurypterids, being also observed in one or the other of their genera, are: the broad carapace, its beveled edge, the triangular concave shield in the middle of the doublure of the underside, the subapical position of the lateral eyes, the large, platelike sternites, ​the articulation between the carapace and abdomen and that between abdomen and telson, and the spiniform telson.
text: Several species which have currently been brought under Eurypterus are here shown to belong to Eusarcus and to differ in a number of characters of generic value, viz, the form of the carapace which is triangular, the marginal position of the compound eyes, the decrease backward of the endognathites and the spinosity of all legs, the form of the metastoma, which is subtriangular and the broad and flat preabdomen.