†Cryptoscorpius americanus Jeram 1994 (scorpion)
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Arachnida - Scorpiones - Palaeopisthacanthidae
Full reference: A. J. Jeram. 1994. Carboniferous Orthosterni and their relationships to living scorpions. Palaeontology 37:513-550
Belongs to Cryptoscorpius according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013
See also Jeram 1994
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: BELUM K14083a, a claw (pedipalp manus and fixed finger). Its type locality is Lone Star Lake spillway (Ulster Museum coll.), which is in a Kasimovian estuary/bay shale in the Lawrence Shale Formation of Kansas.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Lone Star Lake spillway (Ulster Museum coll.)
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