Schinderhannes Kühl et al. 2009 (arthropod)

Radiodonta - Hurdiidae

Full reference: G. Kühl, D. E. G. Briggs, and J. Rust. 2009. A great-appendage arthropod with a radial mouth from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate, Germany. Science 323:771

Parent taxon: Hurdiidae according to R. Lerosey-Aubril and S. Pates 2018

See also Kühl et al. 2009 and Pates et al. 2021

Sister taxa: Aegirocassis, Buccaspinea, Cambroraster, Cordaticaris, Hurdia, Pahvantia, Peytoia, Stanleycaris, Ursulinacaris, Zhenghecaris

Subtaxa: Schinderhannes bartelsi

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Type: Schinderhannes bartelsi

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Eschenbach-Bocksberg Quarry [Hunsrück Slate, Kaub Fm] (Devonian of Germany)

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