Arachnida - Scorpiones - Dolichophoniidae
Alternative combination: Palaeophonus loudonensis
Full reference: M. Laurie. 1899. On a Silurian scorpion and some additional eurypterid remains from the Pentland Hills. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 39:575-590
Belongs to Dolichophonus according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013
See also Fritsch 1904, Kjellesvig-Waering 1986, Laurie 1899, Petrunkevitch 1949 and Petrunkevitch 1953
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: RSM 1897.32.196. Its type locality is Gutterford Burn Eurypterid bed, Pentland Hills, which is in a Telychian offshore sandstone in the Reservoir Formation of the United Kingdom.
Distribution: found only at Gutterford Burn Eurypterid bed, Pentland Hills
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