Mesozomus groehni Müller et al. 2019 (short-tailed whip-scorpion)

Arachnida - Thelyphonida - Hubbardiidae

Full reference: S. P. Müller, J. A. Dunlop, U. Kotthoff, J. U. Hammel, and D. Harms. 2019. The oldest short-tailed whipscorpion (Schizomida): A new genus and species from the Upper Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research 106(104227)

Belongs to Mesozomus according to L. Prendini 2025

See also De Francesco Magnussen et al. 2022 and Müller et al. 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: GPIH 4986, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (GPIH collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (GPIH collection)

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