you mentioned that these were predators, what more can you tell me about them as predators?
Fully grown "Jaekelopterus" would have been apex predators in their environments and likely preyed upon smaller arthropods (including resorting to cannibalism) and early vertebrates.
Jaekelopterus
Fully grown "Jaekelopterus" would have been apex predators in their environments and likely preyed upon smaller arthropods (including resorting to cannibalism) and early vertebrates.
please tell me more about jaekelopterus It is a genus of predatory eurypterid, a group of extinct aquatic arthropods. is their species still alive? UNANSWERABLE where can they be found? It lived in non-marine aquatic environments.
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Jaekelopterus [SEP] Lifestyle and environment
The fossil sites yielding "J. rhenaniae" in the Rhineland have also been interpreted as having been part of a shallow aquatic environment with brackish to fresh water. The chelicerae of "Jaekelopterus" are enlarged, robust and have a curved free ramus and denticles of different lengths and sizes, all adaptations that correspond to strong puncturing and grasping abilities in extant scorpions and crustaceans. Some puncture wounds on fossils of the poraspid agnathan fish "Lechriaspis patula" from the Devonian of Utah were likely caused by "Jaekelopterus howelli". The latest research indicates that "Jaekelopterus" was an active and visual predator. Fully grown "Jaekelopterus" would have been apex predators in their environments and likely preyed upon smaller arthropods (including resorting to cannibalism) and early vertebrates.