Palaeoscorpius devonicus Lehmann 1944 (scorpion)

Arachnida - Scorpiones - Palaeoscorpionidae

Full reference: W. M. Lehmann. 1944. Palaeoscorpius devonicus n. g. n. sp., ein Skorpion aus dem rheinischen Unterdevon. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 1944:177-185

Belongs to Palaeoscorpius according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013

See also Kjellesvig-Waering 1986, Lehmann 1944 and Petrunkevitch 1953

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: FWU Egr 263, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Eschenbach-Bocksberg mine, Bundenbach, which is in an Emsian marine slate in the Hunsrück Slate Formation of Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Eschenbach-Bocksberg mine, Bundenbach

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