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Palaeophonus osborni
Taxonomy
Palaeophonus osborni was named by Whitfield (1885). Its type specimen is AMNH 2257, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Forge Hollow, Waterville, which is in a Pridoli lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Fiddlers Green Formation of New York.
It was recombined as Proscorpius osborni by Fritsch (1904), Petrunkevitch (1953), Kjellesvig-Waering (1966), Kjellesvig-Waering (1986) and Dunlop et al. (2013).
It was recombined as Proscorpius osborni by Fritsch (1904), Petrunkevitch (1953), Kjellesvig-Waering (1966), Kjellesvig-Waering (1986) and Dunlop et al. (2013).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1885 | Palaeophonus osborni Whitfield p. 88 fig. 1 |
| 1904 | Proscorpius osborni Fritsch p. 65 fig. 81 |
| 1949 | Palaeophonus osborni Petrunkevitch p. 129 |
| 1953 | Proscorpius osborni Petrunkevitch p. 12 fig. 118 |
| 1966 | Proscorpius osborni Kjellesvig-Waering p. 364 figs. Pl 42, figs 2,3; pl 43, figs 2-4; pl 44, figs 1-3; text-figs 1-4, 11-18 |
| 1966 | Archaeophonus eurypteroides Kjellesvig-Waering p. 373 figs. Pl 42, fig 1; pl 43, figs 1,5; text-figs 5-10 |
| 1986 | Proscorpius osborni Kjellesvig-Waering p. 39 figs. Pl 1, fig 1; text-figs 6-13, 111A |
| 1986 | Stoermeroscorpio delicatus Kjellesvig-Waering p. 53 figs. 15, 16 |
| 2013 | Proscorpius osborni Dunlop et al. p. 29 |
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†Palaeophonus osborni Whitfield 1885
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available