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Palaeomachus anglicus

Arachnida - Scorpiones

Taxonomy
Eoscorpius anglicus was named by Woodward (1876). Its type specimen is BMNH I.944 and is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Skegby New Colliery, near Mansfield, which is in a Westphalian deltaic shale in the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Palaeomachus.

It was recombined as Palaeomachus anglicus by Pocock (1911), Petrunkevitch (1953), Kjellesvig-Waering (1986), Dunlop et al. (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1876Eoscorpius anglicus Woodward p. 58 figs. Pl 8, figs 1-3
1904Eoscorpius anglicus Fritsch p. 76
1911Palaeomachus anglicus Pocock p. 16 fig. 2
1953Palaeomachus anglicus Petrunkevitch p. 38 fig. 132
1986Palaeomachus anglicus Kjellesvig-Waering p. 242 fig. 109
2013Palaeomachus anglicus Dunlop et al. p. 38

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
subphylumChelicerataHeymons 1901
—EuchelicerataWeygoldt and Paulus 1979
RankNameAuthor
—Prosomapoda
—Planaterga
—Dekatriata
—SclerophorataKamenz et al. 2011
classArachnidaLamarck 1801
—Stomothecata
orderScorpionesLatreille 1817
genusPalaeomachus
speciesanglicus()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Palaeomachus anglicus Woodward 1876
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Diagnosis
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