Arachnida - Phalangiotarbida - Architarbidae
Alternative combination: Architarbus subovalis
Full reference: H. Woodward. 1872. On a new arachnide from the coal-measures of Lancashire. The Geological Magazine 9:385-387
Belongs to Phalangiotarbus according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013
See also Dunlop and Horrocks 1997, Fritsch 1904, Haughton 1877, Petrunkevitch 1949, Petrunkevitch 1953, Pocock 1911 and Woodward 1872
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: TCD F103/SC (neotype). Its type locality is Cornfield pit, south bank of river Calder, near Padiham, which is in a Westphalian A interdistributary bay shale in the Lower Coal Measures Formation of the United Kingdom.
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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