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Eoscorpius distinctus

Arachnida - Scorpiones - Eoscorpiidae

Taxonomy
Typhloscorpius distinctus was named by Petrunkevitch (1949). Its type specimen is BMNH In. 13909 and is an impression. Its type locality is Coseley, near Dudley (Neil coll), which is in a Westphalian B interdistributary bay siliciclastic in the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Typhloscorpius.

It was recombined as Eoscorpius distinctus by Kjellesvig-Waering (1986), Dunlop et al. (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1949Typhloscorpius distinctus Petrunkevitch p. 146 figs. 146, 178
1953Typhloscorpius distinctus Petrunkevitch p. 33
1986Eoscorpius distinctus Kjellesvig-Waering p. 181 figs. Pl 13, figs 1-4; text-figs 79A-B, 80
2013Eoscorpius distinctus Dunlop et al. p. 34

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

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.

†Eoscorpius distinctus Petrunkevitch 1949
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available