Flagellopantopus Poschmann and Dunlop 2006 (sea spider)

Pycnogonida

Full reference: M. Poschmann and J. A. Dunlop. 2006. A new sea spider (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) with flagelliform telson from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate, Germany. Palaeontology 49:983-989

Parent taxon: Pycnogonida according to M. Poschmann and J. A. Dunlop 2006

See also Dunlop et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Austrodecus, Cambropycnogon, Haliestes, Palaeoisopoda, Palaeoisopodidae, Palaeomarachne, Palaeopantopoda, Palaeothea, Pantopoda, Pentapantopus

Subtaxa: Flagellopantopus blocki

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Type: Flagellopantopus blocki

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Obereschenbach Quarry, Hunsrück (Devonian of Germany)

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