Arcuites is an ichnofossil genus, interpreted as a eurypterid swimming trace. Traces produced by swimming eurypterids were described from the Silurian Williamsville Formation (Ontario, Canada) and Tonoloway Formation (Pennsylvania, United States) by Vrazo & Ciurca in 2017 as a new ichnogenus and ichnospecies, named Arcuites bertiensis.[1]
| Arcuites Temporal range:
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Trace fossil classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Order: | †Eurypterida |
| Ichnogenus: | †Arcuites Vrazo & Ciurca, 2017 |
| Type ichnospecies | |
| †Arcuites bertiensis Vrazo & Ciurca, 2017
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References
edit- ^ Matthew B. Vrazo; Samuel J. Ciurca, Jr (2017). "New trace fossil evidence for eurypterid swimming behaviour". Palaeontology. 61 (2): 235–252. doi:10.1111/pala.12336.
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