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Cyclophthalmus senior

Arachnida - Scorpiones - Cyclophthalmidae

Taxonomy
Cyclophthalmus senior was named by Corda (1835). Its type specimen is NMP Inv. 801 and is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Chomle (Sternberg coll), which is in a Westphalian C terrestrial shale/coal in the Kladno Formation of the Czech Republic.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1835Cyclophthalmus senior Corda p. 38 figs. Pl, figs 1-14
1885Cyclophthalmus senior Kušta p. 401 fig. 4
1904Cyclophthalmus senior Fritsch p. 66 figs. Pl 7, figs 1-4; pl 8, figs 3-5; text-figs 84-86
1953Cyclophthalmus senior Petrunkevitch p. 24 figs. 22-26, 128, 129
1986Cyclophthalmus senior Kjellesvig-Waering p. 129 figs. 51, 52, 111I
2008Cyclophthalmus senior Štamberg and Zajíc p. 62 fig. 46
2013Cyclophthalmus senior Dunlop et al. p. 32

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
subphylumChelicerataHeymons 1901
—EuchelicerataWeygoldt and Paulus 1979
—Prosomapoda
RankNameAuthor
—Planaterga
—Dekatriata
—SclerophorataKamenz et al. 2011
classArachnidaLamarck 1801
—Stomothecata
orderScorpionesLatreille 1817
suborderMeristosternina()
superfamilyCyclophthalmoideaThorell and Lindstroem 1885
familyCyclophthalmidae
genusCyclophthalmus
speciessenior

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.

†Cyclophthalmus senior Corda 1835
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Grouping: solitaryc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 09:55:58
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:55:58
Source: c = class
Reference: Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Westphalian C or 314.60000 to 309.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Westphalian C314.6 - 309.8Czech Republic Cyclophthalmus senior (type locality: 146851)