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Archaeoscorpiops cretacicus

Arachnida - Scorpiones - Palaeoeuscorpiidae

Taxonomy
Archaeoscorpiops cretacicus was named by Lourenço (2015). Its type specimen is F2380/BU/CJW, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Wunderlich coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar. It is the type species of Archaeoscorpiops.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2015Archaeoscorpiops cretacicus Lourenço p. 460 figs. 1-7; photos 190-191

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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
—Planaterga
RankNameAuthor
—Dekatriata
—SclerophorataKamenz et al. 2011
classArachnidaLamarck 1801
—Stomothecata
orderScorpionesLatreille 1817
suborderOrthosternina()
superfamilyChactoideaPocock 1893
familyPalaeoeuscorpiidae
subfamilyArchaeoscorpiopinae
genusArchaeoscorpiops
speciescretacicus

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.

†Archaeoscorpiops cretacicus Lourenço 2015
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available