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Geralycosa fricii

Arachnida - Araneae - Arthromygalidae

Taxonomy
Geralycosa fritschi was named by Kušta (1889). Its type specimen is CGH Me 64, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Rakovník (Rakonitz, Prague collection), which is in a Moscovian terrestrial shale/coal in the Kladno Formation of the Czech Republic.

It was misspelled as Geralycosa fritschii by Fritsch (1904), Petrunkevitch (1953) and Dunlop et al. (2013); it was corrected as Geralycosa fricii by Kušta (1889), Štamberg and Zajíc (2008) and Selden (2021).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1889Geralycosa fricii Kušta p. 196 fig. 1
1889Geralycosa fritschi Kušta p. 196 fig. 1
1904Arthrolycosa fortis Fritsch p. 8 figs. Pl 1, figs 1-3; text-fig 4
1904Arthrolycosa beecheri Fritsch p. 9 figs. Pl 1, figs 3-5; text-fig 5
1904Geralycosa fritschii Fritsch p. 14 figs. Pl 3; text-figs 11-13
1953Arthromygale fortis Petrunkevitch p. 103 fig. 107,108,190,195
1953Geralycosa fritschi Petrunkevitch p. 105 figs. 109,110,185-187
2008Arthromygale beecheri Štamberg and Zajíc p. 53 fig. 26
2008Arthromygale fortis Štamberg and Zajíc p. 53 fig. 26
2008Geralycosa fricii Štamberg and Zajíc p. 54 fig. 29
2013Arthromygale fortis Dunlop et al. p. 126
2013Geralycosa fritschi Dunlop et al. p. 126
2021Geralycosa fricii Selden p. 336 figs. 14-16

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
Deuteropoda
subphylumChelicerataHeymons 1901
EuchelicerataWeygoldt and Paulus 1979
Prosomapoda
Planaterga
RankNameAuthor
Dekatriata
SclerophorataKamenz et al. 2011
classArachnidaLamarck 1801
Pantetrapulmonata
subclassTetrapulmonataSchultz 1990
Serikodiastida
orderAraneae
suborderMesothelae
familyArthromygalidaePetrunkevitch 1923
genusGeralycosa
speciesfricii()

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.

Geralycosa fricii Kušta 1889
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Invalid names: Arthrolycosa beecheri Fritsch 1904 [synonym], Arthrolycosa fortis Fritsch 1904 [synonym]
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: Moscovian or 315.20000 to 307.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Moscovian315.2 - 307.0Czech Republic (Central Bohemian) Geralycosa fritschi, Arthrolycosa fortis, Arthrolycosa beecheri (type locality: 126152)