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Palaeophonus osborni

Arachnida - Scorpiones - Palaeophonidae

Taxonomy
Palaeophonus osborni was named by Whitfield (1885). Its type specimen is AMNH 2257, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Forge Hollow, Waterville, which is in a Pridoli lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Fiddlers Green Formation of New York.

It was recombined as Proscorpius osborni by Fritsch (1904), Petrunkevitch (1953), Kjellesvig-Waering (1966), Kjellesvig-Waering (1986) and Dunlop et al. (2013).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1885Palaeophonus osborni Whitfield p. 88 fig. 1
1904Proscorpius osborni Fritsch p. 65 fig. 81
1949Palaeophonus osborni Petrunkevitch p. 129
1953Proscorpius osborni Petrunkevitch p. 12 fig. 118
1966Proscorpius osborni Kjellesvig-Waering p. 364 figs. Pl 42, figs 2,3; pl 43, figs 2-4; pl 44, figs 1-3; text-figs 1-4, 11-18
1966Archaeophonus eurypteroides Kjellesvig-Waering p. 373 figs. Pl 42, fig 1; pl 43, figs 1,5; text-figs 5-10
1986Proscorpius osborni Kjellesvig-Waering p. 39 figs. Pl 1, fig 1; text-figs 6-13, 111A
1986Stoermeroscorpio delicatus Kjellesvig-Waering p. 53 figs. 15, 16
2013Proscorpius osborni Dunlop et al. p. 29

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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
superfamilyAllopalaeophonoidea
familyPalaeophonidae
genusPalaeophonus
speciesosborni

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.

Palaeophonus osborni Whitfield 1885
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Diagnosis
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