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Palaeopisthacanthus vogelandurdeni

Arachnida - Scorpiones - Palaeopisthacanthidae

Taxonomy
Palaeopisthacanthus vogelandurdeni was named by Jeram (1994). Its type specimen is BELUM K14086, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Lone Star Lake spillway (Ulster Museum coll.), which is in a Kasimovian estuary/bay shale in the Lawrence Shale Formation of Kansas.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Palaeopisthacanthus vogelandurdeni Jeram p. 526 figs. Pl 5, fig 4; pl 7, fig 6; text-fig 6D
2013Palaeopisthacanthus vogelandurdeni Dunlop et al. p. 36

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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
suborderOrthosternina()
superfamilyScorpionoidea
familyPalaeopisthacanthidae
genusPalaeopisthacanthus
speciesvogelandurdeni

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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Diagnosis
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