Cyclophthalmus euglyptus Peach 1883 (scorpion)

Arachnida - Scorpiones - Cyclophthalmidae

Alternative combination: Eoscorpius euglyptus

Full reference: B. N. Peach. 1883. A new species of fossil scorpions from the Carboniferous rocks of Scotland and the English borders, with a review of the genera Eoscorpius and Mazonia of Messrs Meek and Worthen. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 30:397-412

Belongs to Cyclophthalmus according to R. I. Pocock 1911

See also Dunlop et al. 2013, Kjellesvig-Waering 1986, Peach 1883, Petrunkevitch 1949 and Petrunkevitch 1953

Sister taxa: Cyclophthalmus robustus, Cyclophthalmus senior, Cyclophthalmus sibiricus

Type specimen: GSE 2142. Its type locality is Glencartholm, which is in a Visean marginal marine tuff/shale in the Glencartholm Volcanic Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Cyclophthalmus euglyptus in the database

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