†family Archaeobuthidae Lourenço 2001 (scorpion)
Arachnida - Scorpiones - Archaeobuthidae
Full reference: W. R. Lourenço. 2001. A remarkable scorpion fossil from the amber of Lebanon. Implications for the phylogeny of Buthoidea. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 332:641-646
Parent taxon: Buthoidea according to W. R. Lourenço 2001
See also Dunlop et al. 2013
Sister taxa: Buthidae, Palaeoburmesebuthidae, Protobuthidae
Subtaxa: Archaeobuthus
Type: Archaeobuthus
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Hasroun, Bcharreh Mountain (Estephan collection) (Cretaceous of Lebanon)