Palaeobutheolus andreschmidti Lourenço 2025 (scorpion)

Arachnida - Scorpiones - Buthidae

Full reference: W. R. Lourenço. 2025. Taxonomic names, in One more remarkable new genus and species of fossil scorpion from Burmese Cretaceous amber associated to the extant family Buthidae (Scorpiones: Buthoidea). Faunitaxys 13(35):1-6

Belongs to Palaeobutheolus according to W. R. Lourenço 2025

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (André Schmidt collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar

Ecology:

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

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