Imagine having fun swimming with your friends and all of a sudden a 2 meter long sea scorpion is swimming next to you, what would you do? The eurypterid, the sea scorpion, is a very fascinating and diverse animal. It lived in many different locations. Also, it was one of the fiercest predators and lived for a long period of time.
Today the eurypterid is compared to an over-sized scorpion. It was one of the biggest arthropods in the Silurian Period. Some eurypterids walked, some burrowed, and some did both. Some had paddle- like limbs that helped them swim, while others had limbs made for walking or gathering food. They were a fascinating creature!
Great Britain, Canada, and Germany are places where traces of eurypterid were found. They could live at the bottom of the ocean, brackish water, and fresh water. Since they were such diverse animals they could swim, walk, crawl, or burrow around their estuaries or bays. To locate a eurypterid these days, you would need to look into the fossil records.
Beware trilobites, agnatha, and sea crawling creatures, here comes the fiercest predator, the eurypterid! They ate anything they could get their pinchers on. As scavengers, they preyed upon fish, other arthropod, and each other. They were also the one to get hunted by Nautilods. The eurypterid was a fierce predator, but the Nautilods were fiercer. The Silurian Period was over 440 million years ago. The eurypterid lived 432 to 418 million years ago. At the end of the