Buthiscorpius Petrunkevitch 1953 (scorpion)

Arachnida - Scorpiones - Buthiscorpiidae

Full reference: A. I. Petrunkevitch. 1953. Paleozoic and Mesozoic Arachnida of Europe. Geological Society of America Memoir 53:1-122

Parent taxon: Buthiscorpiidae according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013

See also Kjellesvig-Waering 1986, Legg et al. 2012 and Petrunkevitch 1953

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Buthiscorpius lemayi

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Pit 6, Coal City, Mazon Creek (FMNH coll) (Carboniferous of Illinois)

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