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Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History Yale Univ Hallipterus excelsior, a Stylonurid (Chelicerata: Eurypterida) from the Late Devonian Catskill Delta Complex, and Its Phylogenetic Position in the Hardieopteridae O. Erik Tetlie Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, P. O. Box 208109, New Haven CT 06520-8109 USA — email: [email protected] Abstract The priority of the names Stylonurus excelsior and S. lacoanus from the Late Devonian of the east- ern United States has been disputed since they were first recognized as synonyms. The genus Hal- lipterus was later erected for the two known specimens, and they were again separated into distinct species, based on six listed differences, seemingly resolving the priority dispute. However, four of the differences are not present or can be interpreted as ontogenetically or taphonomically induced, and the remaining two are putatively interpreted as sexually dimorphic based on com- parisons with Tarsopterella, a closely related taxon. The two species are therefore synonymized again and the species epithet excelsior is considered to have priority. Advocates of both names also provided different reconstructions, mainly based on other stylonurids. Hallipterus is placed in the Hardieopteridae based on putative synapomorphies with Hardieopterus and particularly Tarsop- terella, the latter also clearly a hardieopterid, and the phylogenetic position of the Hardieopteri- dae is discussed. Although only the original two specimens of H. excelsior are known today, as a century ago, a new reconstruction is provided, supported by phylogenetic evidence, to replace the two earlier versions. Keywords Carapace, Catskill delta, chelicerates, eurypterid, ICZN, North America, synonymy. Introduction Some of the stylonurids (forms without swim- ming legs) were also very large, especially those Eurypterids, commonly referred to as sea scorpi- of Devonian to Permian age, when they chiefly ons, are chelicerate arthropods that lived in mar- occur in deposits of fluvial and lacustrine origin. ginal marine environments during the middle The largest of these were the hibbertopterids; one Paleozoic Era, and which later in the Paleozoic carapace of Hibbertopterus scouleri (Hibbert, inhabited mainly lacustrine, fluvial and estuarine 1836) from the Carboniferous of Scotland is 65 environments. Eurypterida was the most diverse cm wide (Jeram and Selden 1993). These eu- chelicerate order before the Permian mass ex- rypterids were very wide compared to their tinction, according to the current fossil record. length, and an animal with a 65-cm-wide cara- However, several of the species represented in pace was probably less than 2 m long. The hib- this diversity are based on undiagnostic material, bertopterids were extremely deep-bodied and revising material to evaluate the true diver- compared to other eurypterids, and although sity of Eurypterida is a continuous effort. their body mass has not been estimated, they Eurypterids include some of the largest and would certainly rival any other arthropod in most impressive arthropods ever to inhabit the weight. The Late Devonian genus Hallipterus planet. Largest of all were the Silurian and Early Kjellesvig-Waering, 1963, which might be related Devonian pterygotid eurypterids, which occa- to the hibbertopterids, was slightly smaller. Only sionally reached lengths of more than 2 m; the two specimens can be assigned to Hallipterus, largest fragments suggest total lengths (including and these two suggest animals approaching at chelicerae) of more than 3 m (Braddy et al. 2008). least 1 m in length; earlier estimates of 1.5 m Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 49(1):19–30, April 2008. © 2008 Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. All rights reserved. • http://www.peabody.yale.edu 20 Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 49(1) • April 2008 Figure . Hallipterus excelsior. A. Photograph of the illustration provided by Clarke and Ruedemann (1912, pl. 48). B. Interpretive drawing of the ventral appendages of the Claypole specimen (modified from Hall and Clarke 1888, pl. 26A). Phylogenetic Position of Hallipterus excelsior • Tetlie 21 (Beecher 1900; Clarke and Ruedemann 1912) are statements about publication dates. The timeline probably too high. unfolded something like this, mainly based on The two fossils referred to Hallipterus were the account of Beecher (1900) and dates in the found and described almost simultaneously published works: In 1882 James Hall received around 1883 (Claypole 1883; Hall 1884a), a coin- from Dr. Cook, State Geologist of New Jersey, a cidence that later caused much confusion about plaster cast of a complete carapace of a large sty- the priority of the names. The two names were lonurid (Figure 1A) from the Catskill Group of recognized at an early stage as synonyms (Hall New York State, USA. D. S. Martin, who exam- and Clarke 1888). Advocates of both available ined the cast sent to Hall at the New York State names, Stylonurus lacoanus (Claypole, 1883) Museum in Albany, New York, made the first ref- and S. excelsior Hall, 1884a, supported priority. erence to the specimen before the New York Hall and Clarke (1888), Clarke and Ruedemann Academy of Sciences, in an abstract dated 16 Oc- (1912) and Ruedemann (1939) supported the tober 1882. The specimen was neither figured priority of S. excelsior, while Beecher (1900) sup- nor described, but Martin introduced the name ported S. lacoanus. Each group provided its own Stylomurus [sic] excelsior without any reference reconstruction (Beecher 1900; Clarke and to Hall; the name is clearly a nomen nudum. The Ruedemann 1912), as if to further justify their next mention was probably of the second speci- claims for priority. Kjellesvig-Waering (1963) men (but the order of events is equivocal; see erected the genus Hallipterus and interpreted below), a larger, less complete and more poorly both species as valid, based on six differences be- preserved carapace also from the Catskill Group, tween the two specimens, thereby seemingly re- but from Pennsylvania, USA. Claypole (1883) solving the priority dispute. presented this to the American Philosophical So- The present study suggests that four of the ciety on 21 September 1883. He erected the name differences noted by Kjellesvig-Waering (1963) Dolichocephala lacoana, and this paper was can be explained as effects of taphonomy or on- printed on 2 November 1883. Hall (1884a) pub- togeny. The other two differences are inter- lished his full description of the more complete preted as examples of sexual dimorphism, since carapace (see Figure 1A) in the 36th Annual Re- they are also noted in the closely related Tar- port of the New York State Museum under the sopterella scotica (Woodward, 1865), and it is name Stylonurus excelsior. An inscription in here suggested that H. excelsior and H. la- front of this report reads: “Transmitted to the coanus are indeed synonyms, as claimed before legislature January 12, 1883,” suggesting that the 1963. Drawing on the International Code of Zo- report was finished and sent to the printer long ological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999), the name before Claypole gave his paper. The New York Hallipterus excelsior is retained, based on the State Museum report was apparently printed in action of the first reviser of the taxon. The mor- 1884, but a copy in the Geology Library at Yale phology of the carapace suggests a close phylo- University includes a handwritten note beside genetic relationship to the Early Devonian T. the 1884 date that says “some copies seem to be scotica and the Early Silurian form Hardieop- dated 1883.” Hall (1885) repeated some aspects terus macrophthalmus (Laurie, 1892), both of his original description of the carapace, but from Scotland. I provide a phylogenetic model was still not aware of the specimen described by of the Hardieopteridae and, on the basis of these Claypole. relationships, new reconstructions of Hardieop- Hall and Clarke (1888) were the first to con- terus macrophthalmus and Hallipterus excel- sider the two species synonymous. They devel- sior to accommodate these observations. oped the ventral side of the Claypole specimen, exposing parts of the prosomal appendages (see Historical Research Figure 1B), and figured both specimens as S. ex- celsior. The generic name Dolichocephala used The history of the two names lacoanus and ex- by Claypole (1883) had already been introduced celsior, introduced almost simultaneously for two by Macquart (1823) for a dipteran (Insecta), but specimens of Hallipterus from a similar horizon the two eurypterid specimens were united under and nearly the same area, is full of contradictory the name Stylonurus excelsior by Hall and Clarke 22 Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 49(1) • April 2008 (1888) before this was discovered. Beecher nomenclatural acts cannot be objectively deter- (1900) disputed the priority of S. excelsior, not- mined, the precedence is fixed by the action of ing that Claypole’s paper predated the 1884 re- the first author citing in a published work those port with Hall’s description. Later, Ruedemann names or acts and selecting from them; this au- (1939) refuted Beecher’s claim and stated that, thor is termed the ‘First Reviser’.” In this partic- while Claypole’s paper was printed on 2 Novem- ular case, the first revisers are Hall and Clarke ber 1883, Hall’s paper had to be published before (1888) as the first to realize the synonymy of the the end of the fiscal year, which at the time was two specimens and, according to the Code, their 30 September 1883, according to New York State nomenclatural act gives precedence to S. excel- Senate laws. sior over S. lacoanus. Priority of Name Materials and Methods Hall, Clarke and Ruedemann, in their subse- The specimens of the gigantic Late Devonian sty- quent mentions of the species (e.g., Hall and lonurid are at the Rutgers University Geological Clarke 1888; Clarke and Ruedemann 1912; Museum (RUGM 232), New Brunswick, New Ruedemann 1939) use the name Stylonurus ex- Jersey, USA (the Hall specimen “S. excelsior”) celsior Hall and refer to the abstract of Martin and at the United States National Museum (1882).
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