Arachnida - Scorpiones - Pseudochactidae
Full reference: W. R. Lourenço and A. Beigel. 2011. A new scorpion fossil from the Cretaceous amber of Myanmar (Burma). New phylogenetic implications. Comptes Rendus Palevol 10:635-639
Belongs to Chaerilobuthus according to Q. Xuan et al. 2025
See also Lourenço and Beigel 2011
Sister taxa: Chaerilobuthus birmanicus, Chaerilobuthus brandti, Chaerilobuthus brigittemuellerae, Chaerilobuthus bruckschi, Chaerilobuthus enigmaticus, Chaerilobuthus gigantosternum, Chaerilobuthus hansgeorgmuelleri, Chaerilobuthus knodelorum, Chaerilobuthus longiaculeus, Chaerilobuthus meggeri, Chaerilobuthus petersi, Chaerilobuthus schmidti, Chaerilobuthus schwarzi, Chaerilobuthus serratus, Chaerilobuthus staxi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Beigel SMF coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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