Pentapantopus Kühl et al. 2013 (sea spider)

Pycnogonida

Full reference: G. Kühl, M. Poschmann, and J. Rust. 2013. A ten-legged sea spider (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Germany). Geological Magazine 150:556-564

Parent taxon: Pycnogonida according to G. Kühl et al. 2013

See also Dunlop et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Austrodecus, Cambropycnogon, Flagellopantopus, Haliestes, Palaeoisopoda, Palaeoisopodidae, Palaeomarachne, Palaeopantopoda, Palaeothea, Pantopoda

Subtaxa: Pentapantopus vogteli

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Type: Pentapantopus vogteli

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Obereschenbach Quarry, Hunsrück (Devonian of Germany)

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