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Eurypterus   Listen
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Eurypterus  n.  (Paleon.) A genus of extinct Merostomata, found in Silurian rocks. Some of the species are more than three feet long.






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... cells of the retina, thus clinching the argument for its ancient function as an eye. But the outstanding and specifically glandular cells are large secreting affairs, which too reach back to the tidewater days of our vertebrate ancestors, when Eurypterus and other Crustaceans were engrossed with the fundamental problems of brain versus belly. Besides these, there are the singular masses upon which has been fastened the unnecessarily opprobious epithet of brain sand. These, noted and commented upon from the earliest times, consist of collections ...
— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.



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