Editing Carboniferous (section)

===Freshwater and lagoonal invertebrates===
Freshwater Carboniferous invertebrates include various [[bivalve]] [[mollusc]]s that lived in brackish or fresh water, such as ''Anthraconaia'', ''[[Naiadites]]'', and ''[[Carbonicola (bivalve)|Carbonicola]]''; diverse [[crustacean]]s such as ''[[Candona]]'', ''[[Carbonita (crustacean)|Carbonita]]'', ''[[Darwinula]]'', ''[[Estheria (crustacean)|Estheria]]'', ''Acanthocaris'', ''Dithyrocaris'', and ''Anthrapalaemon''. The [[eurypterid]]s were also diverse, and are represented by such genera as ''[[Adelophthalmus]]'', ''[[Megarachne]]'' (originally misinterpreted as a giant spider, hence its name) and the specialised very large ''[[Hibbertopterus]]''. Many of these were amphibious. Frequently a temporary return of marine conditions resulted in marine or brackish water genera such as ''[[Lingula (genus)|Lingula]]'', ''Orbiculoidea'', and ''[[Productus]]'' being found in the thin beds known as marine bands.

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File:20210116 Megarachne hypothetical reconstruction.png|''Megarachne'' was a large freshwater eurypterid from South America that was originally misidentified as a spider
File:Adelophthalmus irinae.png|''Adelophthalmus'' was the only genus of [[Eurypterina|eurypterine]] eurypterid that survived past the Devonian
File:Hibbertopterus scouleri.jpg|Due to its large and compact shell, ''Hibbertopterus'' was one of if not the heaviest eurypterid in the fossil record
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