Arachnida - Scorpiones - Buthidae
Full reference: W. R. Lourenço and W. Weitschat. 1996. More than 120 years after its description, the enigmatic status of the genus of the Baltic amber scorpion "Tityus eogenus" Menge, 1869 can finally be clarified. Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 79:183-193
Parent taxon: Buthidae according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013
See also Lourenço 2012 and Lourenço and Weitschat 1996
Sister taxa: Centruroides, Cretaceousbuthus, Microcharmus, Microtityus, Palaeoakentrobuthus, Palaeoananteris, Palaeogrosphus, Palaeoisometrus, Palaeoprotobuthus, Palaeospinobuthus, Palaeotityobuthus, Scorpio schweiggeri, Tityus, Tityus eogenus, Uintascorpio
Subtaxa: Palaeolychas balticus Palaeolychas weitschati
Type: Palaeolychas balticus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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