Superfamily Scorpionoidea Latreille 1802 (scorpion)

Arachnida - Scorpiones

Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. 3:1-467

Parent taxon: Orthosternina according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013

See also Hong 1983 and Kjellesvig-Waering 1986

Sister taxa: Buthoidea, Chactoidea, Chaeriloidea, Corniops, Pseudochactida, Suraju

Subtaxa: Compsoscorpius Palaeopisthacanthidae Protoischnuridae Scorpionidae

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of China (1 collection), Germany (1)

• Cretaceous of Brazil (8), Myanmar (3)

• Carboniferous of France (1), the United Kingdom (17), United States (3: Illinois, Kansas)

Total: 34 collections including 37 occurrences

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