Hastimima

Hastimima is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid of the family Mycteroptidae.^[1] It contains one valid species, Hastimima whitei, recovered from the Permian Hermit Shale of Arizona, and one dubious species, H. sewardi, from the Devonian of South Africa.^[2] Though clearly a mycteropoid eurypterid, the material referred to H. sewardi is so fragmentary that it is questionable if it possesses any diagnostic value at all.^[3]

Hastimima Temporal range: Permian ~290.1–272.5 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Possible Devonian record
Telson (89-92, 94) and coxa (93) of H. whitei.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Order:	†Eurypterida
Superfamily:	†Mycteropoidea
Family:	†Mycteroptidae
Genus:	†Hastimima White, 1908
Type species
Hastimima whitei White, 1908
Species
†?H. sewardi Strand, 1926 †H. whitei White, 1908

See also

• List of eurypterid genera

References

1. Lamsdell, James C. (2012). "Redescription of Drepanopterus pentlandicus Laurie, 1892, the earliest known mycteropoid (Chelicerata: Eurypterida) from the early Silurian (Llandovery) of the Pentland Hills, Scotland". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 103: 77–103. doi:10.1017/S1755691012000072.
2. Dunlop, J. A.; Penney, D.; Jekel, D. (2018). "A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives" (PDF). World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern.
3. Dunlop, J. A. (2006). "Embrik Strand's eurypterids". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte.