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

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1944Palaeoscorpius devonicus Lehmann p. 180 figs. 1-4
1953Palaeoscorpius devonicus Petrunkevitch p. 14
1986Palaeoscorpius devonicus Kjellesvig-Waering p. 61 figs. Pl 3, fig 1; text-figs 19, 111E
2013Palaeoscorpius devonicus Dunlop et al. p. 33

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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
suborderHolosternina()
superfamilyPalaeoscorpoidea(Lehmann 1944)
familyPalaeoscorpionidae(Lehmann 1944)
genusPalaeoscorpius
speciesdevonicus

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.

†Palaeoscorpius devonicus Lehmann 1944
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Diagnosis
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