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
Belongs to Palaeolychas according to W. R. Lourenço and W. Weitschat 1996
Sister taxon: Palaeolychas weitschati
Type specimen: Jens von Holt Soslg.66, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (von Holt collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (von Holt collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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