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Garnettius hungerfordi

Arachnida - Scorpiones - Garnettiidae

Taxonomy
Mazonia hungerfordi was named by Elias (1937). Its type specimen is USNM 125453, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is 6 miles northwest of Garnett, which is in a Kasimovian estuary/bay shale in the Stanton Formation of Kansas. It is the type species of Garnettius.

It was considered a nomen nudum by Elias (1936); it was recombined as Garnettius hungerfordi by Petrunkevitch (1953), Kjellesvig-Waering (1986), Dunlop et al. (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Mazonia hungerfordi Elias p. 335 fig. 3n
1953Garnettius hungerfordi Petrunkevitch p. 34 figs. 36-39, 125
1986Garnettius hungerfordi Kjellesvig-Waering p. 114 figs. 46, 47B-K, 48
2013Garnettius hungerfordi Dunlop et al. p. 31

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
Deuteropoda
subphylumChelicerataHeymons 1901
EuchelicerataWeygoldt and Paulus 1979
Prosomapoda
RankNameAuthor
Planaterga
Dekatriata
SclerophorataKamenz et al. 2011
classArachnidaLamarck 1801
Stomothecata
orderScorpionesLatreille 1817
suborderHolosternina()
superfamilyEoctonoidea
familyGarnettiidaeDubinin 1962
genusGarnettius
specieshungerfordi()

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.

Garnettius hungerfordi Elias 1937
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Diagnosis
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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: Kasimovian or 307.00000 to 303.70000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kasimovian307.0 - 303.7USA (Kansas) Mazonia hungerfordi (type locality: 122510)