Gondwanascorpio emzantsiensis Gess 2013 (scorpion)

Arachnida - Scorpiones

Full reference: R. W. Gess. 2013. The earliest record of terrestrial animals in Gondwana: a scorpion from the Famennian (Late Devonian) Witpoort Formation of South Africa. African Invertebrates 54:373-379

Belongs to Gondwanascorpio according to R. W. Gess 2013

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AM7501, a claw. Its type locality is Waterloo Farm, which is in a Famennian lagoonal shale/sandstone in the Witpoort Formation of South Africa.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Waterloo Farm

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