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Wattisonia coseleyensis

Arachnida - Scorpiones

Taxonomy
Wattisonia coseleyensis was named by Wills (1960). Its type specimen is BU 722A,B and is an impression. Its type locality is Coseley, near Dudley (Birmingham University coll), which is in a Westphalian B interdistributary bay shale in the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Wattisonia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1960Wattisonia coseleyensis Wills p. 319 figs. Pl 56, figs 2-4; text-figs 26,27
1986Wattisonia coseleyensis Kjellesvig-Waering p. 242
2013Wattisonia coseleyensis Dunlop et al. p. 39

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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
genusWattisonia
speciescoseleyensis

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.

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