848 Acknowledgments
We are grateful to the miners of the Republican Unitary Enter- prise of Production Amalgamation ‘Belaruskali’ who observed and saved the eurypterid specimens described in this study. B. Granovskiy is thanked for Russian translations. G. Andrews (West Virginia University) is thanked for converting Corel Draw files to PDF format. We thank J. Dunlop (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin) and an anonymous referee for comments that improved the quality of the manuscript.
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