Orthotarbus minutus Petrunkevitch 1913 (phalangiotarbid)

Arachnida - Phalangiotarbida - Architarbidae

Alternative combination: Geratarbus minutus

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 Orthotarbus according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013

See also Petrunkevitch 1913, Petrunkevitch 1945, Petrunkevitch 1949 and Petrunkevitch 1953

Sister taxa: Orthotarbus longipes, Orthotarbus nyranensis, Orthotarbus robustus

Type specimen: YPM 176. Its type locality is Mazon Creek (YPM collection), which is in a Westphalian D deltaic mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Mazon Creek (YPM collection)

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