Arachnida - Scorpiones - Buthidae
Full reference: W. R. Lourenço and W. Weitschat. 2001. Description of another fossil scorpion from Baltic amber, with considerations on the evolutionary levels of Cenozoic Buthoidea. Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 85:277-283
Belongs to Palaeoananteris according to W. R. Lourenço and W. Weitschat 2001
Sister taxa: Palaeoananteris ukrainensis, Palaeoananteris wunderlichi
Type specimen: Deutsches Bernsteinmuseum Ribnitz-Damgarten III 1154, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Ribnitz-Damgarten collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (Ribnitz-Damgarten collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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