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Palaeoscorpius devonicus
Taxonomy
Palaeoscorpius devonicus was named by Lehmann (1944). Its type specimen is FWU Egr 263, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Bundenbach - Eschenbach, Germany, which is in an Emsian marine slate in the Hunsrueck Slate Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Palaeoscorpius.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1944 | Palaeoscorpius devonicus Lehmann p. 180 figs. 1-4 |
| 1953 | Palaeoscorpius devonicus Petrunkevitch p. 14 |
| 1986 | Palaeoscorpius devonicus Kjellesvig-Waering p. 61 figs. Pl 3, fig 1; text-figs 19, 111E |
| 2013 | Palaeoscorpius devonicus Dunlop et al. p. 33 |
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†Palaeoscorpius devonicus Lehmann 1944
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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Age range: Early/Lower Emsian or 409.10000 to 402.50000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Emsian | Germany | Palaeoscorpius devonicus (type locality: 26904) |