Arachnida - Trigonotarbida - Palaeocharinidae
Full reference: S. Hirst. 1923. On some arachnid remains from the Old Red Sandstone (Rhynie Chert Bed, Aberdeenshire). The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 12:455-474
Parent taxon: Trigonotarbida according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013
See also Fayers et al. 2005, Petrunkevitch 1945, Petrunkevitch 1949, Poschmann and Dunlop 2011 and Shear 2000
Sister taxa: Aenigmatarbus, Anthracomartidae, Anthracomartus hageni, Anthracophrynus, Anthracosironidae, Aphantomartidae, Archaeomartidae, Areomartus, Elaverimartus, Elaverimartus pococki, Eophrynidae, Eophrynus scharfi, Eurymartidae, Eurymartus spinulosus, Kreischeriidae, Lissomartidae, Namurotarbus, Palaeocteniza, Palaeotarbus, Permotarbus, Termes buchi, Trigonomartus woodruffi, Trigonotarbidae, Tynecotarbus
Subtaxa: Aculeatarbus Gelasinotarbus Gigantocharinus Gilboarachne Palaeocharinus Spinocharinus
Type: Palaeocharinus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Devonian of Germany (1 collection), the United Kingdom (5), United States (4: New York, Pennsylvania)
Total: 10 collections including 26 occurrences