†Eoctonus miniatus Petrunkevitch 1913 (scorpion)
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Arachnida - Scorpiones - Eoctonidae
Full reference: A. I. Petrunkevitch. 1913. A monograph of the terrestrial Palaeozoic Arachnida of North America. Transactions of the Connecticut Acadamy of Arts and Sciences 18:1-137
Belongs to Eoctonus according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013
See also Kjellesvig-Waering 1986, Petrunkevitch 1913 and Petrunkevitch 1953
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: YPM 131. Its type locality is Mazon Creek (YPM collection), which is in a Westphalian D deltaic mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (3: Illinois collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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