Flagellopantopus blocki 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

Belongs to Flagellopantopus according to M. Poschmann and J. A. Dunlop 2006

See also Dunlop et al. 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PWL 2004/5024-LS, a carapace. Its type locality is Obereschenbach Quarry, Hunsrück, which is in an Emsian marine slate in the Kaub Formation of Germany.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Obereschenbach Quarry, Hunsrück

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