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Protochactas furreri

Arachnida - Scorpiones - Protochactidae

Taxonomy
Protochactas furreri was named by Lourenço et al. (2022). Its type specimen is MCSN 8613, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Acqua del Ghiffo, level 350, which is in a Fassanian carbonate lime mudstone in the Meride Formation of Switzerland. It is the type species of Protochactas.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2022Protochactas furreri Lourenço et al. p. 4 figs. 3-14

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
subphylumChelicerataHeymons 1901
—EuchelicerataWeygoldt and Paulus 1979
—Prosomapoda
RankNameAuthor
—Planaterga
—Dekatriata
—SclerophorataKamenz et al. 2011
classArachnidaLamarck 1801
—Stomothecata
orderScorpionesLatreille 1817
suborderOrthosternina()
superfamilyChactoideaPocock 1893
familyProtochactidae
genusProtochactas
speciesfurreri

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.

†Protochactas furreri Lourenço et al. 2022
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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: Fassanian or 241.46400 to 239.48000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Fassanian241.464 - 239.48Switzerland Protochactas furreri (type locality: 230229)