†Pleophrynus ensifer Petrunkevitch 1945 (arthropod)
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Arachnida - Trigonotarbida - Eophrynidae
Full reference: A. I. Petrunkevitch. 1945. Palaeozoic Arachnida of Illinois. An enquiry into their evolutionary trends. Illinois State Museum, Scientific Papers 3(2):1-72
Belongs to Pleophrynus according to A. I. Petrunkevitch 1953
See also Petrunkevitch 1945 and Petrunkevitch 1949
Sister taxa: Pleophrynus hawesi, Pleophrynus verrucosus
Type specimen: ISM 14873, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Mazon Creek (Illinois State Museum collection), which is in a Westphalian D deltaic mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Mazon Creek (Illinois State Museum collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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