Assertion: eurypterid | /r/Synonym | sea scorpions
Facets:
value: commonly
type: TEMPORAL
value: popularly
type: DEGREE
value: because of their long segmented body
type: CAUSE
value: because of their long tails
type: CAUSE
value: for rather obvious reasons
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: Although popularly called "sea scorpions", only the earliest eurypterids were marine; many later forms lived in brackish or fresh water, and they were not true scorpions.
text: Megarachne is a eurypterid (sea “scorpion”)
text: Although eurypterids are commonly known as "sea scorpions", hibbertopterids inhabited freshwater swamps and rivers and were unable to swim since they lacked swimming paddles, a feature they shared with their entire suborder, the Stylonurina.
text: A diverse fauna of eurypterids (sea scorpions)—some of them several meters in length—prowled the shallow Silurian seas of North America; many of their fossils have been found in New York state.
text: See giant trilobites crawl, eurypterids (sea scorpions) swim and giant cephalopods hunt.
text: Eurypterids are commonly called “sea scorpion” for rather obvious reasons.
text: Because of their long tails and the spine-like appendage at the tip, the eurypterids have been called sea-scorpions.
text: Along the seafloor, a eurypterid, also known as a sea scorpion, chases after a soon-to-be meal of trilobites.
text: Eurypterids are commonly called the “sea scorpions” because of their long segmented body (opisthosoma), fused head segments (prosoma), sharp tail piece (telson) and claws (chelicerae).
text: Although eurypterids such as Jaekelopterus are often called "sea scorpions", the strata in which Jaekelopterus fossils have been found suggest that it lived in fresh water environments.
text: The eurypterids, commonly called "sea scorpions", were aquatic creatures that lived during the Palaeozoic era that share several physical traits with scorpions and may be closely related to them.
text: Although popularly called "sea scorpions", only the earliest eurypterids were marine; many later forms lived in brackish or fresh water, and they were not true scorpions.
text: Although eurypterids such as Jaekelopterus are often called "sea scorpions", the strata in which Jaekelopterus fossils have been found suggest that it lived in fresh water environments.
text: Although eurypterids such as Jaekelopterus are often called "sea scorpions", the strata in which Jaekelopterus fossils have been found suggest that it lived in fresh water environments.
text: Scorpions are ancient creatures that evolved from eurypterids (commonly called sea scorpions), an extinct group of arthropods that are related to arachnids.
text: The eurypterid (sea scorpion) was the largest known arthropod that ever lived (with the possible exception of Arthropleuridae).
text: Eurypterid (sea scorpion; Mid Ordovician-Late Permian): A boat-sized "sea scorpion" called kajanok agdlinartok supposedly resides in Greenland's Lake Natsilik.
text: Although eurypterids are commonly known as "sea scorpions", hibbertopterids inhabited freshwater swamps and rivers and were unable to swim since they lacked swimming paddles, a feature they shared with their entire suborder, the Stylonurina.