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Palaeopisthacanthus vogelandurdeni

Arachnida - Scorpiones - Palaeopisthacanthidae

Taxonomy
Palaeopisthacanthus vogelandurdeni was named by Jeram (1994). Its type specimen is BELUM K14086, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Lone Star Lake spillway (Ulster Museum coll.), which is in a Kasimovian estuary/bay shale in the Lawrence Shale Formation of Kansas.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Palaeopisthacanthus vogelandurdeni Jeram p. 526 figs. Pl 5, fig 4; pl 7, fig 6; text-fig 6D
2013Palaeopisthacanthus vogelandurdeni Dunlop et al. p. 36

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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
suborderOrthosternina()
superfamilyScorpionoidea
familyPalaeopisthacanthidae
genusPalaeopisthacanthus
speciesvogelandurdeni

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.

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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: 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) Palaeopisthacanthus vogelandurdeni (type locality: 153595)