Opsieobuthus pottsvillensis Moore 1923 (scorpion)

Arachnida - Scorpiones - Centromachidae

Full reference: J. I. Moore. 1923. A review of the present knowledge of fossil scorpions with the description of a new species from the Pottsville Formation of Clay County, Indiana. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 38:125-134

Belongs to Opsieobuthus according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013

Sister taxon: Opsieobuthus tungeri

Type specimen: FMNH UC 37984. Its type locality is Strip pit east of Clay City, which is in a Westphalian A/Westphalian B terrestrial shale in the Pottsville Formation of Indiana.

Ecology:

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Opsieobuthus pottsvillensis in the database

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