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Palaeoscorpius devonicus

Arachnida - Scorpiones - Palaeoscorpionidae

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 Eschenbach-Bocksberg mine, Bundenbach, which is in an Emsian marine slate in the Hunsrück Slate Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Palaeoscorpius.