Mesozomus groehni Müller et al. 2019 (short-tailed whip-scorpion)

Arachnida - Thelyphonida - Hubbardiidae

Full reference: S. P. Müller, J. A. Dunlop, U. Kotthoff, J. U. Hammel, and D. Harms. 2019. The oldest short-tailed whipscorpion (Schizomida): A new genus and species from the Upper Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research 106(104227)

Belongs to Mesozomus according to S. P. Müller et al. 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: GPIH 4986, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (GPIH coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (GPIH coll)

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