Cyclophthalmus senior Corda 1835 (scorpion)

Arachnida - Scorpiones - Cyclophthalmidae

Full reference: A. J. C. Corda. 1835. Ueber den in der Steinkohlenformation bei Cholme gefundenen fossilen Scorpion. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft des Vaterländischen Museums in Böhmen 35-43

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

See also Corda 1835, Fritsch 1904, Kjellesvig-Waering 1986, Kušta 1885, Petrunkevitch 1953 and Štamberg and Zajíc 2008

Sister taxa: Cyclophthalmus euglyptus, Cyclophthalmus robustus, Cyclophthalmus sibiricus

Type specimen: NMP Inv. 801. Its type locality is Chomle (Sternberg coll), which is in a Westphalian C terrestrial shale/coal in the Kladno Formation of Czechia.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Chomle (Sternberg coll)

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