Arachnida - Scorpiones - Palaeophonidae

Full reference: T. Thorell and G. Lindström. 1884. Sur un Scorpion du terrain silurien de Suède. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 99:984-985

Belongs to Palaeophonus according to J. A. Dunlop and R. J. Garwood 2023

See also Dunlop et al. 2013, Fritsch 1904, Petrunkevitch 1949, Petrunkevitch 1953, Thorell and Lindström 1884, Thorell and Lindström 1884, Thorell and Lindström 1884 and Thorell and Lindström 1885

Sister taxa: Palaeophonus caledonicus, Palaeophonus osborni

Type specimen: SRM Ar.32235, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Vattenfallet section, Visby, top of Högklintslager beds, which is in a Sheinwoodian carbonate limestone in the Högklint Formation of Sweden.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Vattenfallet section, Visby, top of Högklintslager beds

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